Vanderbilt University Medical Center

VUMC · academic_medical_center · Tennessee

Report card

Data confidence: Moderate — this describes how usable the published file is for price comparison, not care quality and not legal compliance. How scores work.

What this hospital published

Each stage applies one more comparison rule to this hospital's price rows — what drops out is still visible on this site, just never ranked. What the stages mean.

Where this hospital stands out

Market position is computed per service context against the corpus-wide median, only where at least 3 hospitals report the exact context, and always within one price type.

Priced above the area market

Showing the top 10 of 2,685 contexts priced 10%+ above the area median.

Priced below the area market

Showing the top 10 of 1,273 contexts priced 10%+ below the area median.

Insurer rates vs. this hospital's cash price

Comparing a negotiated rate to the same hospital's cash price needs no cross-hospital floor — both numbers come from this one hospital's file. The comparison is only made where it is meaningful: a per-diem rate is a DAILY amount and is never labeled above or below a cash price.

Where insurers pay more than cash

Showing the top 15 of 72,469 contexts where a negotiated rate exceeds this hospital's own cash price.

Why some of this hospital's rows can't be compared

A single row can carry several blockers at once, so counts overlap. Full blocker explanations.