THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER
121 DEKALB AVE · BROOKLYN, NY · 11201 · 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 38 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 38 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 3,557 codes) puts the score at 1.80x.
THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER bills well above peers — about 2.27x the regional median overall. Within departments, Emergency/Eval prices are notably high (2.04x, 51 codes); Lab is comparatively affordable (0.77x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
A nearby hospital 1.94 mi away is ~78% cheaper overall.
WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER has an overall price level of 0.51x vs. this hospital's 2.27x, with 3,280 procedures in common.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.4x) with some outliers (14% 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 | 0.97x | 1,122 | 32% |
| Inpatient | 1.34x | 775 | 100% |
| Lab | 0.77x | 578 | 6% |
| Imaging | 0.94x | 381 | 30% |
| Other | 0.97x | 313 | 37% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.93x | 273 | 4% |
| Cardiac | 0.87x | 68 | 13% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.04x | 51 | 61% |
| Therapy | 0.86x | 46 | 24% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
- Beds: 236
- Annual discharges: 11,067
- CMS overall quality star rating: 2/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 38 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 BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER.