CAREWELL HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
300 CENTRAL AVENUE · EAST ORANGE, NJ · 07018 · 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 53 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 53 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,863 codes) puts the score at 1.52x.
CAREWELL HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 1.71x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy is the most expensive department (1.30x); Imaging is comparatively affordable (0.61x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
A nearby hospital 7.88 mi away is ~35% cheaper overall.
OVERLOOK MEDICAL CENTER has an overall price level of 1.10x vs. this hospital's 1.71x, with 744 procedures in common.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.5x) with few outliers (2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 0.88x | 5,895 | 13% |
| Other | 0.95x | 3,639 | 11% |
| Inpatient | 0.78x | 2,071 | 5% |
| Lab | 0.82x | 1,601 | 3% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.30x | 678 | 62% |
| Imaging | 0.61x | 662 | 3% |
| Cardiac | 0.68x | 201 | 9% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.74x | 168 | 7% |
| Therapy | 0.70x | 75 | 5% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Proprietary
- Beds: 159
- Annual discharges: 4,013
- 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 53 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 CAREWELL HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER.