SHRINERS CHILDREN'S BOSTON

51 BLOSSOM ST · BOSTON, MA · 02114 · Childrens

0.99x Near peers

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 4,883 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,595 codes) puts the score at 0.79x.

SHRINERS CHILDREN'S BOSTON prices near the regional median (0.99x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (10.00x, 2,260 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.57x). The wide price spread (C grade) means individual bills are hard to predict — a procedure priced near the median in one department may be 5x in another.

47% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)

why?

Wide price spread (IQR ratio 56.0x) with 37% of codes above 3x the regional median

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
Drugs/Pharmacy	10.00x	2,260	84%
Inpatient	0.57x	1,338	0%
Surgery	0.90x	409	24%
Lab	0.99x	398	42%
Imaging	0.83x	246	5%
Other	0.94x	154	38%
Therapy	1.87x	53	74%
Emergency/Eval	0.78x	15	40%
Cardiac	0.73x	10	0%

Hospital info

Type: Childrens
Ownership: Proprietary
Beds: 30
Annual discharges: 1,350

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 SHRINERS CHILDREN'S BOSTON.