CAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER

101 DATES DR · ITHACA, NY · 14850 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.02x 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 13,901 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,036 codes) puts the score at 1.12x.

CAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (1.02x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (1.62x, 1,887 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.70x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.

54% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability B (Moderate)

why?

Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.7x) with some outliers (9% 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	1.03x	5,009	55%
Other	1.00x	3,558	49%
Inpatient	1.06x	2,126	71%
Drugs/Pharmacy	1.62x	1,887	60%
Lab	0.94x	825	24%
Imaging	0.73x	306	17%
Cardiac	1.00x	92	50%
Therapy	0.70x	68	24%
Emergency/Eval	1.02x	30	60%

Hospital info

Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Beds: 89
Annual discharges: 5,294
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 CAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER.