THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER
121 DEKALB AVE · BROOKLYN, NY · 11201 · 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 41 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 41 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,426 codes) puts the score at 1.75x.
THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 2.44x the regional median overall. Within departments, Lab is the most expensive department (1.42x); Other is comparatively affordable (0.65x). 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 1.94 mi away is ~80% cheaper overall.
WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER has an overall price level of 0.50x vs. this hospital's 2.44x, with 3,773 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.0x) with 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.69x | 1,517 | 36% |
| Inpatient | 0.81x | 1,329 | 31% |
| Surgery | 0.66x | 1,122 | 5% |
| Lab | 1.42x | 589 | 64% |
| Other | 0.65x | 534 | 18% |
| Imaging | 0.94x | 383 | 42% |
| Cardiac | 0.81x | 68 | 22% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.72x | 57 | 25% |
| Therapy | 0.60x | 46 | 7% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
- Beds: 236
- Annual discharges: 11,067
- CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 41 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 THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER.