NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL BROOKLYN
150 55TH ST · BROOKLYN, NY · 11220
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 30 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 30 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 8,999 codes) puts the score at 1.97x.
NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL BROOKLYN bills well above peers — about 2.59x the regional median overall. Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (2.65x, 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 1.3 mi away is ~94% cheaper overall.
Maimonides Medical Center has an overall price level of 0.15x vs. this hospital's 2.59x, with 1,987 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.4x) with 36% 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 | 1.47x | 3,359 | 91% |
| Inpatient | 1.00x | 2,018 | 30% |
| Lab | 1.39x | 1,335 | 80% |
| Other | 1.17x | 1,038 | 65% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.00x | 684 | 49% |
| Imaging | 1.06x | 562 | 72% |
| Cardiac | 1.51x | 171 | 84% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.65x | 91 | 84% |
| Therapy | 1.70x | 66 | 85% |
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 30 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 HOSPITAL BROOKLYN.