ALICE HYDE MEDICAL CENTER
133 PARK STREET · MALONE, NY · 12953 · 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 187 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 187 codes) puts the score at 0.18x.
ALICE HYDE MEDICAL CENTER bills below peers — about 0.14x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.12x). 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 4.2x) with 0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imaging | 0.12x | 91 | 0% |
| Surgery | 0.12x | 62 | 0% |
| Cardiac | 0.34x | 14 | 14% |
| Lab | 0.79x | 8 | 13% |
| Other | 0.75x | 8 | 0% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.60x | 4 | 0% |
Hospital info
- Type: Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 25
- Annual discharges: 1,125
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
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 ALICE HYDE MEDICAL CENTER.