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THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

150 BERGEN STREET · NEWARK, NJ · 07103 · Acute Care Hospitals

1.17x Above peers

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 49 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 49 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 5,349 codes) puts the score at 0.94x.

THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL bills above peers — about 1.17x the regional median. Within departments, Lab is comparatively affordable (0.78x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.

35% of codes priced above the regional median Reliability A (Predictable)
why?Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.4x) with few outliers (1% 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.

DepartmentRatioCodes% above median
Inpatient 1.03x 2,035 55%
Surgery 0.98x 1,179 37%
Lab 0.78x 996 5%
Other 0.98x 523 32%
Imaging 0.94x 505 20%
Cardiac 0.95x 99 41%
Therapy 0.31x 44 11%
Emergency/Eval 0.74x 34 15%
Drugs/Pharmacy 1.11x 6 50%

Hospital info

  • Type: Acute Care Hospitals
  • Ownership: Government - State
  • Beds: 358
  • Annual discharges: 17,208
  • 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 49 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 THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.