New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
310 E 14TH ST · NEW YORK, NY · 10003 · Acute Care Hospitals
vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code). How is this computed?
All-codes score: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Based on 16,024 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 9,987 codes) puts the score at 2.11x.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai prices near the regional median (1.08x overall). Within departments, Inpatient prices are notably high (2.95x, 770 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 2.7x) with 15% 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 | 1.16x | 6,492 | 70% |
| Other | 1.00x | 4,074 | 41% |
| Lab | 2.12x | 1,861 | 85% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.91x | 1,353 | 6% |
| Imaging | 0.99x | 898 | 42% |
| Inpatient | 2.95x | 770 | 100% |
| Cardiac | 0.93x | 264 | 35% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.85x | 237 | 17% |
| Therapy | 1.36x | 75 | 79% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 15
- Annual discharges: 312
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: median of price ratios across every available billing code. 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 New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.