WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
760 BROADWAY · BROOKLYN, NY · 11206 · 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 54 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 54 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 22,390 codes) puts the score at 1.00x.
WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER bills below peers — about 0.50x the regional median. Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (2.04x, 1,565 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.80x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.6x) with some outliers (6% above 3x)How 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 1.00x | 12,676 | 18% |
| Surgery | 0.80x | 6,331 | 24% |
| Inpatient | 1.00x | 4,588 | 42% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.05x | 2,214 | 54% |
| Lab | 2.04x | 1,565 | 76% |
| Imaging | 1.12x | 761 | 58% |
| Cardiac | 1.00x | 239 | 44% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.00x | 172 | 25% |
| Therapy | 1.34x | 73 | 59% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Government - Local
- Beds: 238
- Annual discharges: 6,182
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 54 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 WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER.