STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL
201 MANOR PL · GREENPORT, NY · 11944
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 16 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 16 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 1,496 codes) puts the score at 3.42x.
STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 3.00x the regional median overall. Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (10.00x, 116 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.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.2x) with 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inpatient | 3.12x | 782 | 93% |
| Surgery | 6.46x | 337 | 96% |
| Imaging | 9.12x | 226 | 100% |
| Lab | 10.00x | 116 | 76% |
| Other | 5.22x | 75 | 97% |
| Therapy | 6.18x | 36 | 100% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.37x | 16 | 63% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 2.74x | 9 | 67% |
| Cardiac | 10.00x | 4 | 100% |
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 16 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 STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL.