GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL

100 PARK ST · GLENS FALLS, NY · 12801 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.01x 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 16,538 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,840 codes) puts the score at 1.98x.

GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL prices near the regional median (1.01x overall). Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (2.28x, 141 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.81x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.

53% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability B (Moderate)

why?

Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.4x) with some outliers (6% 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	1.02x	7,303	57%
Surgery	0.81x	4,957	35%
Inpatient	1.32x	2,131	57%
Drugs/Pharmacy	1.61x	1,066	89%
Lab	1.02x	492	58%
Imaging	1.00x	280	49%
Emergency/Eval	2.28x	141	97%
Cardiac	1.18x	102	64%
Therapy	1.29x	66	74%

Hospital info

Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Beds: 391
Annual discharges: 10,963
CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5

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 GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL.