SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
418 N MAIN ST · PENN YAN, NY · 14527 · 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 1,363 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 1,272 codes) puts the score at 0.86x.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.83x the regional median. The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 14.7 mi away is ~20% cheaper overall.
GENEVA GENERAL HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 0.66x vs. this hospital's 0.83x, with 1,365 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.3x) with few outliers (0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 0.83x | 1,271 | 20% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.81x | 41 | 29% |
| Other | 0.69x | 28 | 18% |
| Lab | 0.81x | 9 | 0% |
| Surgery | 0.28x | 7 | 0% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.76x | 7 | 0% |
Hospital info
- Type: Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 25
- Annual discharges: 277
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 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.