ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER
43 NEW SCOTLAND AVE · ALBANY, NY · 12208 · Acute Care 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 15,325 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 11,469 codes) puts the score at 1.18x.
ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (1.02x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (3.08x, 953 codes). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
A nearby hospital 10.97 mi away is ~72% cheaper overall.
ELLIS HOSPITAL - BELLEVUE WOMAN'S CARE CENTER has an overall price level of 0.29x vs. this hospital's 1.02x, with 2,514 procedures in common.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.5x) with some outliers (5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 0.98x | 6,947 | 37% |
| Surgery | 1.06x | 4,439 | 62% |
| Inpatient | 1.12x | 2,131 | 61% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 3.08x | 953 | 88% |
| Lab | 1.04x | 424 | 78% |
| Imaging | 1.27x | 181 | 75% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.58x | 123 | 80% |
| Cardiac | 1.58x | 67 | 91% |
| Therapy | 1.00x | 60 | 52% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 719
- Annual discharges: 36,272
- 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 ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER.