Mount Sinai South Nassau
1 HEALTHY WAY · OCEANSIDE, NY · 11572 · Acute Care Hospitals
vs. the regional median (the other ~300 NY/NJ/CT hospitals publishing the same code). How is this computed?
All-codes score: median of price ratios across every available billing code. Based on 15,676 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 11,569 codes) puts the score at 2.01x.
Mount Sinai South Nassau bills well above peers — about 1.51x the regional median overall. Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (2.17x, 1,652 codes); Emergency/Eval is comparatively affordable (0.73x). 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 6.46 mi away is ~15% cheaper overall.
NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER has an overall price level of 1.28x vs. this hospital's 1.51x, with 14,056 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 2.4x) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 1.74x | 6,157 | 90% |
| Other | 0.86x | 4,722 | 33% |
| Lab | 2.17x | 1,652 | 94% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.99x | 1,232 | 48% |
| Inpatient | 1.88x | 770 | 98% |
| Imaging | 1.00x | 680 | 49% |
| Cardiac | 0.91x | 198 | 44% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.73x | 192 | 3% |
| Therapy | 1.55x | 73 | 78% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 312
- Annual discharges: 17,351
- CMS overall quality star rating: 3/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: median of price ratios across every available billing code. 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 Mount Sinai South Nassau.