SARATOGA HOSPITAL
211 CHURCH ST · SARATOGA, NY · 12866 · 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 10 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 10 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,719 codes) puts the score at 2.12x.
SARATOGA HOSPITAL bills above peers — about 1.18x the regional median. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (2.77x, 1,077 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.78x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.5x) with some outliers (13% 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 | 1.08x | 7,575 | 70% |
| Surgery | 0.98x | 5,071 | 41% |
| Inpatient | 0.90x | 2,131 | 30% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 2.77x | 1,077 | 91% |
| Lab | 1.00x | 457 | 51% |
| Imaging | 1.06x | 242 | 63% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.66x | 138 | 75% |
| Cardiac | 1.39x | 114 | 67% |
| Therapy | 0.78x | 69 | 23% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 171
- Annual discharges: 9,492
- CMS overall quality star rating: 3/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 10 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 SARATOGA HOSPITAL.