HIGHLAND HOSPITAL
1000 SOUTH AVE · ROCHESTER, NY · 14620 · 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 48 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 48 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 10,118 codes) puts the score at 1.06x.
HIGHLAND HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.70x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is the most expensive department (1.17x); Drugs/Pharmacy is comparatively affordable (0.84x). 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 (1% 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 | 1.17x | 4,202 | 86% |
| Inpatient | 0.92x | 2,186 | 16% |
| Other | 1.00x | 2,036 | 50% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.84x | 1,904 | 9% |
| Imaging | 1.10x | 567 | 73% |
| Cardiac | 1.06x | 130 | 67% |
| Lab | 1.15x | 127 | 93% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.10x | 27 | 89% |
| Therapy | 1.11x | 19 | 84% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 261
- Annual discharges: 14,820
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 48 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 HIGHLAND HOSPITAL.