MONTEFIORE WAKEFIELD CAMPUS
600 EAST 233RD STREET · BRONX, NY · 10466
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 37 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 37 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 13,694 codes) puts the score at 2.87x.
MONTEFIORE WAKEFIELD CAMPUS bills well above peers — about 2.18x the regional median overall. Within departments, Surgery prices are notably high (1.98x, 5,896 codes); Imaging is comparatively affordable (0.53x). 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 2.79 mi away is ~72% cheaper overall.
JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER has an overall price level of 0.61x vs. this hospital's 2.18x, with 12,603 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 3.4x) with 42% 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 | 1.98x | 5,896 | 98% |
| Other | 1.00x | 2,988 | 41% |
| Inpatient | 0.96x | 2,039 | 37% |
| Lab | 0.81x | 1,662 | 40% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.98x | 1,135 | 39% |
| Imaging | 0.53x | 670 | 10% |
| Cardiac | 0.81x | 208 | 32% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.00x | 184 | 46% |
| Therapy | 0.92x | 78 | 41% |
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 37 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 MONTEFIORE WAKEFIELD CAMPUS.