Athol Memorial Hospital
2033 MAIN STREET · ATHOL, MA · 01331 · Critical Access Hospitals
vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code). How is this computed?
All-codes score: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Based on 14,124 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,565 codes) puts the score at 1.05x.
Athol Memorial Hospital prices near the regional median (1.07x overall). Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (1.80x, 1,621 codes). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.7x) with few outliers (3% above 3x)How A/B/C is determined: A = narrow price spread (IQR < 2.0×) with <5% of codes priced more than 3× the regional median. B = moderate (IQR 2.0–3.0× OR 5–20% above 3×). C = wider than that.
Cost by department
Each ratio compares this hospital's prices in that department to the median across NY/NJ/CT hospitals for the same department.
| Department | Ratio | Codes | % above median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 1.02x | 5,863 | 58% |
| Other | 1.12x | 2,894 | 67% |
| Inpatient | 1.31x | 1,818 | 53% |
| Lab | 1.80x | 1,621 | 96% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.88x | 946 | 23% |
| Imaging | 1.13x | 635 | 67% |
| Cardiac | 1.08x | 194 | 66% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.14x | 79 | 72% |
| Therapy | 1.17x | 74 | 84% |
Hospital info
- Type: Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 21
- Annual discharges: 393
- CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Validated against RAND Hospital Price Transparency Study v5.1 employer claims data at Spearman ρ = 0.73 (n = 105 hospitals).
Download the original transparency file from Athol Memorial Hospital.