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SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

703 MAIN STREET · PATERSON, NJ · 07503 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.31x Above peers

vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code).

How is this computed?High-confidence score: 10% trimmed mean across 53 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 53 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 18,405 codes) puts the score at 0.95x.

SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER bills above peers — about 1.31x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.50x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.

A nearby hospital 4.71 mi away is ~93% cheaper overall.

SELECT SPECIALTY HOSPITAL - NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY has an overall price level of 0.09x vs. this hospital's 1.31x, with 720 procedures in common.

34% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability B (Moderate)
why?Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.3x) with some 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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Other 0.98x 6,789 38%
Surgery 0.50x 6,511 12%
Inpatient 1.11x 2,145 78%
Lab 0.96x 1,817 27%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.04x 1,630 59%
Imaging 0.85x 901 27%
Emergency/Eval 1.03x 275 56%
Cardiac 0.80x 271 30%
Therapy 0.67x 87 21%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Church
  • Beds: 681
  • Annual discharges: 25,095
  • CMS overall quality star rating: 3/5
Methodology & sources

Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 53 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. 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 SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.