SAINT BARNABAS HOSPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM
4422 THIRD AVENUE · BRONX, NY · 10457 · 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 9,528 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 769 codes) puts the score at 1.93x.
SAINT BARNABAS HOSPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM bills below peers — about 0.31x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient prices are notably high (1.64x, 2,044 codes); Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.17x). 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 5.6x) with 0% 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 | 0.17x | 5,635 | 0% |
| Inpatient | 1.64x | 2,044 | 82% |
| Other | 0.41x | 723 | 5% |
| Imaging | 0.34x | 609 | 1% |
| Cardiac | 0.26x | 185 | 5% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.67x | 139 | 5% |
| Lab | 0.68x | 129 | 22% |
| Therapy | 0.50x | 53 | 0% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.80x | 11 | 0% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 283
- Annual discharges: 12,766
- 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: 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 SAINT BARNABAS HOSPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM.