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VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER

45 READE PL · POUGHKEEPSIE, NY · 12601 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.08x 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 18,663 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,824 codes) puts the score at 1.15x.

VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (1.08x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (4.45x, 114 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.65x). 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.

59% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.3x) with 16% 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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Surgery 2.17x 6,513 97%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.00x 4,924 12%
Other 1.03x 2,507 61%
Inpatient 2.34x 2,044 84%
Lab 0.86x 1,616 19%
Imaging 0.94x 668 40%
Cardiac 1.13x 215 68%
Emergency/Eval 4.45x 114 95%
Therapy 0.65x 62 19%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 345
  • Annual discharges: 18,696
  • 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: 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 VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER.