NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center|NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center|NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
506 6TH ST · BROOKLYN, NY · 11215
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 36 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 36 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,526 codes) puts the score at 1.79x.
NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center|NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center|NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital bills well above peers — about 2.23x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (2.54x, 736 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 2.2 mi away is ~93% cheaper overall.
Maimonides Medical Center has an overall price level of 0.15x vs. this hospital's 2.23x, with 1,601 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 4.0x) with 32% 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 | 1.03x | 1,905 | 63% |
| Lab | 1.30x | 994 | 77% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 2.54x | 736 | 79% |
| Inpatient | 1.62x | 603 | 89% |
| Other | 1.03x | 570 | 57% |
| Imaging | 1.21x | 549 | 85% |
| Cardiac | 1.18x | 109 | 60% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.46x | 68 | 84% |
| Therapy | 1.93x | 52 | 81% |
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 36 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).
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