AHN WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
189 E MAIN ST · WESTFIELD, NY · 14787 · 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 54 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 54 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 15,266 codes) puts the score at 0.97x.
AHN WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.56x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.23x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.5x) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 0.96x | 6,556 | 34% |
| Surgery | 0.23x | 6,030 | 1% |
| Lab | 0.83x | 1,681 | 8% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 1,581 | 52% |
| Imaging | 0.52x | 747 | 3% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.75x | 254 | 13% |
| Cardiac | 0.42x | 221 | 6% |
| Therapy | 0.55x | 81 | 0% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 4
- Annual discharges: 210
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 54 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 AHN WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.