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HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

30 PROSPECT AVENUE · HACKENSACK, NJ · 07601 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.20x Above 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 12,561 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,432 codes) puts the score at 3.73x.

HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER bills above peers — about 1.20x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient is the most expensive department (1.45x). The wide price spread (C grade) means individual bills are hard to predict — a procedure priced near the median in one department may be 5x in another.

A nearby hospital 1.43 mi away is ~91% cheaper overall.

SELECT SPECIALTY HOSPITAL - NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY has an overall price level of 0.10x vs. this hospital's 1.20x, with 791 procedures in common.

68% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability C (Volatile)
why?Wide price spread (IQR ratio 1.8x) with 18% of codes above 3x the regional median

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
Other 1.31x 7,853 80%
Surgery 0.98x 1,646 40%
Drugs/Pharmacy 0.99x 1,338 44%
Inpatient 1.45x 880 94%
Lab 0.93x 519 12%
Imaging 1.00x 152 49%
Emergency/Eval 1.14x 119 71%
Cardiac 1.56x 41 63%
Therapy 0.95x 13 39%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
  • Beds: 769
  • Annual discharges: 41,703
  • CMS overall quality star rating: 5/5
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 HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.