NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL
6511 SPRINGBROOK AVENUE · RHINEBECK, NY · 12572 · 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 19,639 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,798 codes) puts the score at 1.23x.
NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.12x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (4.45x, 114 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.64x). 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.2x) with 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 2.52x | 6,505 | 97% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 4,952 | 12% |
| Other | 1.02x | 3,455 | 67% |
| Inpatient | 1.57x | 2,058 | 67% |
| Lab | 1.10x | 1,615 | 86% |
| Imaging | 0.95x | 666 | 41% |
| Cardiac | 1.64x | 216 | 74% |
| Emergency/Eval | 4.45x | 114 | 95% |
| Therapy | 0.64x | 58 | 16% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 79
- Annual discharges: 4,738
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
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 NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL.