NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
56-45 MAIN ST · FLUSHING, NY · 11355 · 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 47 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 47 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,741 codes) puts the score at 1.17x.
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens bills well above peers — about 2.04x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (2.35x, 732 codes). 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 2.28 mi away is ~75% cheaper overall.
QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER has an overall price level of 0.52x vs. this hospital's 2.04x, with 3,429 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.9x) with 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lab | 1.16x | 900 | 71% |
| Surgery | 1.02x | 874 | 59% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 2.35x | 732 | 78% |
| Other | 0.98x | 414 | 42% |
| Imaging | 1.16x | 410 | 78% |
| Inpatient | 1.03x | 291 | 55% |
| Cardiac | 1.05x | 77 | 56% |
| Emergency/Eval | 3.64x | 46 | 89% |
| Therapy | 1.46x | 44 | 77% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 476
- Annual discharges: 26,477
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 47 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 NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.