23%
Publish usable prices
Grades A or B
31%
No usable file found
Grade F
C
Average grade
across 26 mandated hospitals
6
of 26
with usable prices we could parse

Under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule, every general acute care hospital in the United States is required to publish a machine-readable file (MRF) listing its standard charges for at least 300 shoppable services. The rule took effect in January 2021, but enforcement has been uneven. CareRanks checks each New Hampshire hospital's MRF on a monthly cycle and assigns a letter grade reflecting what we could find and parse: whether a machine-readable file exists at the hospital's published location, and how much usable pricing it contains.

In New Hampshire, 26 of the 32 facilities reviewed are subject to the rule (VA hospitals, federal psychiatric facilities, children's hospitals, and long-term acute care facilities are exempt or fall under separate transparency programs). Of those, 6 have published comprehensive pricing files that include negotiated rates or cash-pay prices on 25 or more distinct DRGs — earning a Grade A or B. For 8 hospitals we could not locate a usable machine-readable file, which earns a Grade F — that can mean no file is published, or that it is published somewhere our crawler could not find or read.

Use the table below to compare grades, see MRF status, and follow the source link to each hospital's published file. Click a column header to sort. If you spot an out-of-date MRF link or a hospital that should be re-graded, use the "Report an error" link at the bottom of any hospital profile.

26 New Hampshire hospitals graded
Hospital City Grade MRF status Source
Cheshire Medical Center (Inpatient Rehab) Keene N/A Not mandated
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Concor Concord N/A Not mandated
Frisbie Memorial Hospital (Inpatient Rehab) Rochester N/A Not mandated
New Hampshire Hospital Concord N/A Not mandated
Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Salem N/A Not mandated
St Joseph Hospital Ir Center Nashua N/A Not mandated
Concord Hospital. Pillsbury Bldg Concord No MRF found Hospital site ↗
Concord Hospital - Franklin Franklin No MRF found Hospital site ↗
Concord Hospital- Laconia Laconia No MRF found
Cottage Hospital Woodsville No MRF found Hospital site ↗
Huggins Hospital Wolfeboro No MRF found Hospital site ↗
Littleton Regional Healthcare Littleton No MRF found Hospital site ↗
Parkland Medical Center Derry No MRF found Hospital site ↗
Southern Nh Medical Center Nashua No MRF found Hospital site ↗
MaineHealth Memorial Hospital North Conway MRF published Hospital site ↗
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Portsmouth MRF published Hospital site ↗
Speare Memorial Hospital Plymouth MRF published Hospital site ↗
St. Joseph Hospital Nashua MRF published Hospital site ↗
Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital Colebrook MRF published Hospital site ↗
Catholic Medical Center Manchester MRF published Hospital site ↗
Cheshire Medical Center (Acute Care) Keene MRF published Hospital site ↗
Elliot Hospital Manchester MRF published Hospital site ↗
Frisbie Memorial Hospital (Acute Care) Rochester MRF published Hospital site ↗
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Lebanon MRF published Hospital site ↗
New London Hospital New London MRF published Hospital site ↗
Valley Regional Hospital Claremont MRF published Hospital site ↗
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital Lebanon MRF published Hospital site ↗
Androscoggin Valley Hospital Berlin MRF published Hospital site ↗
Exeter Hospital Exeter MRF published Hospital site ↗
Monadnock Community Hospital Peterborough MRF published Hospital site ↗
Weeks Medical Center Lancaster MRF published Hospital site ↗
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Dover MRF published Hospital site ↗
About the grades

CareRanks grades reflect the depth and usability of a hospital's Machine-Readable File under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule:

  • A — MRF published with negotiated rates or cash-pay prices on 25 or more distinct DRGs.
  • B — MRF published with negotiated or cash prices on fewer than 25 DRGs.
  • C — MRF published, but priced rows include only gross charges (no cash or negotiated rates).
  • D — MRF exists in our archive, but no priced rows could be parsed.
  • F — No MRF found, despite the federal mandate.
  • One letter lower (A→B, B→C, C→D) — when the file we found does not identify this hospital by name and street address, naming its health system or another facility instead; the rule requires each hospital location to be identifiable. Combined system files that list the location are not penalized.
  • N/A — Not mandated (VA, federal psychiatric, children's, long-term acute care).