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ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER

825 CHALKSTONE AVE · PROVIDENCE, RI · 02908 · Acute Care Hospitals

0.90x 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 18,028 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 16,143 codes) puts the score at 1.24x.

ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER prices near the regional median (0.90x overall). Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy is the most expensive department (1.23x); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.55x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.

28% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability B (Moderate)
why?Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.1x) with some outliers (5% 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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Surgery 0.55x 6,039 3%
Other 0.98x 5,753 40%
Inpatient 0.97x 2,044 35%
Lab 0.98x 1,661 46%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.23x 1,389 54%
Imaging 0.98x 665 44%
Cardiac 0.76x 202 10%
Emergency/Eval 0.85x 199 23%
Therapy 0.98x 76 43%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Proprietary
  • Beds: 148
  • Annual discharges: 6,260
  • 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 ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER.