OUR LADY OF FATIMA HOSPITAL

200 HIGH SERVICE AVENUE · NORTH PROVIDENCE, RI · 02904 · Acute Care Hospitals

0.83x Below 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 17,895 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 16,518 codes) puts the score at 0.80x.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA HOSPITAL bills below peers — about 0.83x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.69x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.

21% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability A (Predictable)

why?

Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.9x) with few outliers (4% 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	0.69x	5,913	8%
Other	0.91x	5,725	20%
Inpatient	0.78x	2,040	12%
Lab	1.08x	1,687	64%
Drugs/Pharmacy	0.95x	1,360	28%
Imaging	1.00x	693	49%
Cardiac	0.78x	202	14%
Emergency/Eval	0.83x	199	14%
Therapy	1.03x	76	57%

Hospital info

Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Proprietary
Beds: 185
Annual discharges: 3,753
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 OUR LADY OF FATIMA HOSPITAL.