Saint Michaels Medical Center
111 CENTRAL AVENUE · NEWARK, NJ · 07102 · Acute Care Hospitals
vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code). How is this computed?
High-confidence score: 10% trimmed mean across 51 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 51 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,979 codes) puts the score at 1.00x.
Saint Michaels Medical Center bills above peers — about 1.28x the regional median. Within departments, Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.69x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 0.92 mi away is ~10% cheaper overall.
THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL has an overall price level of 1.16x vs. this hospital's 1.28x, with 2,555 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.5x) with few outliers (1% 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 | 0.95x | 1,462 | 24% |
| Lab | 0.79x | 1,202 | 5% |
| Other | 1.01x | 518 | 52% |
| Imaging | 1.02x | 499 | 62% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.96x | 175 | 19% |
| Cardiac | 0.93x | 123 | 33% |
| Therapy | 0.69x | 53 | 13% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.75x | 30 | 20% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 147
- Annual discharges: 5,851
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 51 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. 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 Saint Michaels Medical Center.