STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL
201 MANOR PL · GREENPORT, NY · 11944
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 20 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 20 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 1,517 codes) puts the score at 3.64x.
STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 3.35x the regional median overall. Within departments, Imaging prices are notably high (9.41x, 222 codes). 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 1.7x) with 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 3.35x | 783 | 93% |
| Surgery | 5.00x | 356 | 94% |
| Imaging | 9.41x | 222 | 100% |
| Other | 5.21x | 71 | 96% |
| Lab | 0.81x | 45 | 38% |
| Therapy | 5.83x | 36 | 100% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.23x | 16 | 63% |
| Cardiac | 10.00x | 4 | 100% |
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 20 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 STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL.