CAPITAL HEALTH - EAST TRENTON
601 HAMILTON AVENUE · TRENTON, NJ · 08629
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 5,016 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,621 codes) puts the score at 1.55x.
CAPITAL HEALTH - EAST TRENTON prices near the regional median (0.93x overall). Within departments, Surgery is the most expensive department (1.47x); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.82x). 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.
A nearby hospital 12.76 mi away is ~18% cheaper overall.
PRINCETON HOUSE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH has an overall price level of 0.76x vs. this hospital's 0.93x, with 676 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.0x) with 16% of codes above 3x the regional medianHow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 0.93x | 2,062 | 41% |
| Lab | 0.82x | 953 | 6% |
| Surgery | 1.47x | 659 | 68% |
| Other | 0.94x | 421 | 33% |
| Imaging | 0.94x | 401 | 18% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.91x | 349 | 8% |
| Cardiac | 1.16x | 103 | 64% |
| Therapy | 0.87x | 46 | 35% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.48x | 22 | 23% |
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 CAPITAL HEALTH - EAST TRENTON.