RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - MAIN CAMPUS
355 BARD AVE · STATEN ISLAND, NY · 10310 · 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 17 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 17 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,549 codes) puts the score at 0.85x.
RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - MAIN CAMPUS bills below peers — about 0.78x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.71x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 5.64 mi away is ~80% cheaper overall.
Maimonides Medical Center has an overall price level of 0.15x vs. this hospital's 0.78x, with 1,503 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.4x) with few outliers (2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 0.92x | 6,860 | 15% |
| Surgery | 0.71x | 5,677 | 14% |
| Inpatient | 0.82x | 2,048 | 38% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 1,551 | 51% |
| Lab | 0.96x | 1,354 | 24% |
| Imaging | 0.88x | 605 | 19% |
| Cardiac | 0.84x | 215 | 27% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.84x | 209 | 9% |
| Therapy | 0.78x | 74 | 26% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 209
- Annual discharges: 11,167
- 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 17 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 RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - MAIN CAMPUS.