FLUSHING HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
4500 PARSONS BLVD · 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, 4,292 codes) puts the score at 0.94x.
FLUSHING HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER bills above peers — about 1.33x the regional median. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (1.99x, 4,832 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.64x). 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 2.66 mi away is ~61% cheaper overall.
QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER has an overall price level of 0.52x vs. this hospital's 1.33x, with 3,746 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 7.9x) 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 | 1.99x | 4,832 | 62% |
| Surgery | 1.00x | 1,149 | 51% |
| Inpatient | 1.19x | 1,117 | 97% |
| Lab | 0.80x | 708 | 9% |
| Other | 1.00x | 421 | 53% |
| Imaging | 0.99x | 294 | 47% |
| Cardiac | 0.83x | 82 | 24% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.12x | 58 | 62% |
| Therapy | 0.64x | 51 | 24% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 247
- Annual discharges: 11,275
- 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 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 FLUSHING HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER.