NYU LANGONE TISCH HOSPITAL
550 FIRST AVENUE · NEW YORK, NY · 10016 · 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 24 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 24 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,990 codes) puts the score at 2.22x.
NYU LANGONE TISCH HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 2.64x the regional median overall. Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (3.11x, 91 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.
A nearby hospital 0.25 mi away is ~82% cheaper overall.
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER has an overall price level of 0.49x vs. this hospital's 2.64x, with 6,675 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.6x) with 42% 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 | 1.76x | 3,359 | 97% |
| Inpatient | 1.00x | 2,018 | 36% |
| Lab | 1.53x | 1,335 | 82% |
| Other | 1.23x | 1,038 | 67% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 684 | 49% |
| Imaging | 1.11x | 562 | 75% |
| Cardiac | 1.77x | 171 | 90% |
| Emergency/Eval | 3.11x | 91 | 82% |
| Therapy | 1.74x | 66 | 88% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 1,609
- Annual discharges: 110,329
- CMS overall quality star rating: 5/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 24 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 NYU LANGONE TISCH HOSPITAL.