MAIMONIDES MIDWOOD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
2525 KINGS HIGHWAY · BROOKLYN, NY · 11229 · 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 21 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 21 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 2,391 codes) puts the score at 2.33x.
MAIMONIDES MIDWOOD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 2.89x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (10.00x, 71 codes); Inpatient is comparatively affordable (0.78x). 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 3.14 mi away is ~95% cheaper overall.
Maimonides Medical Center has an overall price level of 0.15x vs. this hospital's 2.89x, with 793 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.7x) with 45% of codes above 3x the regional medianHow 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 | 1.42x | 582 | 66% |
| Lab | 9.11x | 504 | 91% |
| Inpatient | 0.78x | 397 | 10% |
| Imaging | 1.00x | 383 | 50% |
| Other | 2.35x | 305 | 79% |
| Cardiac | 3.21x | 102 | 72% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 10.00x | 71 | 93% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.46x | 30 | 83% |
| Therapy | 2.01x | 29 | 83% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 134
- Annual discharges: 5,688
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 21 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 MAIMONIDES MIDWOOD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.