NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
2201 HEMPSTEAD TPKE · EAST MEADOW, NY · 11554 · 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 52 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 52 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 17,774 codes) puts the score at 0.73x.
NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER bills above peers — about 1.27x the regional median. Within departments, Imaging prices are notably high (1.62x, 671 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.47x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 2.6x) with some outliers (4% 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 | 0.47x | 5,908 | 15% |
| Other | 0.83x | 5,832 | 16% |
| Inpatient | 0.78x | 2,047 | 37% |
| Lab | 0.87x | 1,637 | 44% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.90x | 1,425 | 20% |
| Imaging | 1.62x | 671 | 77% |
| Cardiac | 0.95x | 206 | 49% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.99x | 198 | 50% |
| Therapy | 1.30x | 77 | 60% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Government - State
- Beds: 326
- Annual discharges: 12,795
- 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 52 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 NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.