Cuba Memorial Hospital
140 W MAIN ST · CUBA, NY · 14727 · Critical Access 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 13,650 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,325 codes) puts the score at 0.45x.
Cuba Memorial Hospital bills below peers — about 0.57x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.29x). 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 4.3x) with 1% 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 | 0.29x | 6,070 | 7% |
| Other | 0.73x | 3,225 | 15% |
| Lab | 0.78x | 1,704 | 4% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.91x | 1,394 | 25% |
| Imaging | 0.43x | 727 | 7% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.02x | 227 | 57% |
| Cardiac | 0.41x | 214 | 10% |
| Therapy | 0.62x | 89 | 11% |
Hospital info
- Type: Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 20
- Annual discharges: 900
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 Cuba Memorial Hospital.