Maimonides Medical Center
4802 10TH AVE · BROOKLYN, NY · 11219 · 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 35 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 35 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 12,225 codes) puts the score at 1.08x.
Maimonides Medical Center bills below peers — about 0.16x the regional median. Within departments, Inpatient is the most expensive department (1.21x); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.70x). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.7x) with some outliers (7% 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 | 1.07x | 6,930 | 56% |
| Other | 1.00x | 4,369 | 36% |
| Lab | 0.97x | 2,278 | 11% |
| Inpatient | 1.21x | 2,022 | 76% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.93x | 1,458 | 25% |
| Imaging | 1.00x | 1,121 | 30% |
| Cardiac | 1.00x | 291 | 32% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.98x | 255 | 28% |
| Therapy | 0.70x | 81 | 27% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 641
- Annual discharges: 28,115
- 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 35 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 Maimonides Medical Center.