Kaleida Health
100 HIGH ST · BUFFALO, NY · 14203 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 17 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 17 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,371 codes) puts the score at 1.05x.
Kaleida Health bills below peers — about 0.19x the regional median. Within departments, Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.63x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.3x) 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 | 1.04x | 6,517 | 62% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 3,544 | 22% |
| Other | 1.00x | 3,540 | 50% |
| Inpatient | 1.15x | 2,068 | 87% |
| Lab | 0.89x | 1,640 | 28% |
| Imaging | 1.02x | 737 | 59% |
| Cardiac | 0.98x | 235 | 39% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.12x | 222 | 70% |
| Therapy | 0.63x | 75 | 12% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 954
- Annual discharges: 47,357
- 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 17 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 Kaleida Health.