PRICE TRANSPARENCY REVIEW 2026-09-18
PRICE TRANSPARENCY REVIEW · Lewis County General Hospital

Lewis County General Hospital

204,411 negotiated rates on file. Zero carry the percentile figures CMS has required since April.

Measured from Lewis County General Hospital's own published price transparency files under 45 CFR Part 180.50 and 180.60, retrieved Sep 18, 2026.

Facilities1
Files retrieved2026-09-18T13:20:00Z UTC
Measured againsteCFR current to 2026-09-01
Prepared bySuperscript
204,411
priced service lines on file
98%
of those lines carry a real negotiated dollar amount
0%
carry the median/percentile figures required since April
25 beds
Critical Access Hospital, Lowville NY
01What’s published today§180.50(d), schema v3.0
FacilityHost domaincms-hpt.txtFilenameSchema Last updatedHTTP last-modType 2 NPIAttester PayersRowsRows w/ rate
Lewis County General Hospitallcgh.netYESstandardcharges3.0.06/1/2026Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:10:42 GMTYESJeffery Hellinger15204,411200,636

SHARE OF EACH FILE CARRYING A PAYER-SPECIFIC RATE

Lewis County General Hospital
98%
02The charge file§180.50
GAP (1)

Zero of 204,411 rows carry this year's required percentile figures

The CY2026 update requires posting the median, 10th and 90th percentile allowed amounts, sourced from 835 remittance data, alongside every payer-specific rate. Lewis County General Hospital's file has the columns for these figures, but none of the 204,411 rows have a value in them.

WATCH (1)

The file itself is hosted off a Google Drive share link, not the hospital's own domain

cms-hpt.txt points to drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=... rather than a file served from lcgh.net or a dedicated vendor host. It resolves and downloads correctly today; it's simply an unusual way to host a file CMS expects to remain reliably reachable at a fixed address.

CLEAR (1)

The harder half of the file is already done

98% of the 204,411 rows carry a real negotiated dollar amount rather than a percentage or algorithm placeholder. That part of the filing, arguably the harder data-collection problem, is essentially complete.

03Enforcement record§180.70, .80, .90
2026-05-26
Lewis County General Hospital — Warning Notice issued (case 7845)
04Open questions
01

Is the percentile field genuinely unpopulated, or does an internal report exist that simply hasn't been published in the machine-readable file yet?

If the 835-derived figures exist internally, this is a publishing gap, not a data gap, and is a much faster fix.

02

Is the Google Drive-hosted file the permanent, intended address, or a placeholder from when the file was first stood up?

A share-link host is one policy change or one expired permission away from silently breaking the address CMS has on file.

Reproducibility
05Method & sources

FLAGGED, NOT ASSERTED — COULD NOT BE VERIFIED FROM OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION