Hospital for Special Surgery (Main Campus)
535 EAST 70TH ST · NEW YORK, NY · 10021 · 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 2,281 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 20 codes) puts the score at 2.53x.
Hospital for Special Surgery (Main Campus) bills below peers — about 0.51x the regional median. Within departments, Imaging is comparatively affordable (0.20x).
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 | 0.31x | 1,632 | 5% |
| Imaging | 0.20x | 243 | 0% |
| Other | 0.88x | 196 | 29% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.01x | 87 | 60% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.96x | 49 | 31% |
| Lab | 0.82x | 30 | 37% |
| Therapy | 0.69x | 26 | 23% |
| Cardiac | 1.03x | 18 | 61% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 166
- Annual discharges: 8,155
- 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: 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 Hospital for Special Surgery (Main Campus).