JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
8900 VAN WYCK EXPRESSWAY · JAMAICA, NY · 11418 · 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 50 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 50 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 4,052 codes) puts the score at 1.05x.
JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 1.62x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (2.15x, 4,993 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.68x). 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 1.32 mi away is ~68% cheaper overall.
QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER has an overall price level of 0.52x vs. this hospital's 1.62x, with 3,977 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 5.9x) with 30% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 2.15x | 4,993 | 64% |
| Inpatient | 1.31x | 1,318 | 91% |
| Surgery | 1.00x | 1,302 | 52% |
| Lab | 0.81x | 702 | 10% |
| Other | 1.01x | 473 | 55% |
| Imaging | 0.99x | 300 | 47% |
| Cardiac | 0.90x | 106 | 26% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.10x | 59 | 59% |
| Therapy | 0.68x | 59 | 27% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 281
- Annual discharges: 13,895
- 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 50 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 JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER.