PUTNAM HOSPITAL CENTER
670 STONELEIGH AVE · CARMEL, NY · 10512 · Acute Care Hospitals
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 19,588 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,735 codes) puts the score at 1.19x.
PUTNAM HOSPITAL CENTER bills above peers — about 1.18x the regional median. Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (4.45x, 113 codes). 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.
A nearby hospital 11.39 mi away is ~10% cheaper overall.
DANBURY HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 1.06x vs. this hospital's 1.18x, with 16,165 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.2x) with 15% 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 | 2.36x | 6,495 | 97% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 4,952 | 15% |
| Other | 1.07x | 3,411 | 81% |
| Inpatient | 1.71x | 2,055 | 63% |
| Lab | 1.11x | 1,616 | 90% |
| Imaging | 1.05x | 665 | 71% |
| Cardiac | 1.70x | 216 | 93% |
| Emergency/Eval | 4.45x | 113 | 99% |
| Therapy | 1.00x | 65 | 51% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 88
- Annual discharges: 2,510
- 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: 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 PUTNAM HOSPITAL CENTER.