ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER
2233 STATE ROUTE 86 · SARANAC LAKE, NY · 12983 · 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 49 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 49 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,657 codes) puts the score at 2.05x.
ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 1.99x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (6.90x, 353 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.59x). 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 2.0x) with 25% 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 | 0.59x | 1,442 | 12% |
| Lab | 0.77x | 884 | 5% |
| Other | 1.01x | 393 | 52% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 6.90x | 353 | 88% |
| Imaging | 1.05x | 315 | 59% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.29x | 98 | 81% |
| Inpatient | 0.81x | 75 | 4% |
| Cardiac | 0.95x | 53 | 42% |
| Therapy | 0.97x | 45 | 38% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
- Beds: 83
- Annual discharges: 1,811
- 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: 10% trimmed mean across 49 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 ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER.