Brooks Memorial Hospital
529 CENTRAL AVE · DUNKIRK, NY · 14048 · 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 19,623 billing codes published by this hospital. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 16,363 codes) puts the score at 0.73x.
Brooks Memorial Hospital bills below peers — about 0.80x the regional median. Within departments, Surgery is comparatively affordable (0.54x). The price distribution is predictable (A grade), so individual bills tend to be consistent within a category.
why?
Price spread is narrow (IQR ratio 1.9x) with few outliers (3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 0.95x | 6,521 | 27% |
| Surgery | 0.54x | 6,490 | 5% |
| Inpatient | 0.85x | 2,047 | 17% |
| Lab | 0.81x | 1,782 | 8% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 0.93x | 1,462 | 16% |
| Imaging | 0.67x | 754 | 5% |
| Cardiac | 0.62x | 248 | 7% |
| Emergency/Eval | 0.80x | 233 | 6% |
| Therapy | 0.56x | 86 | 13% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Beds: 61
- Annual discharges: 1,019
- 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: 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 Brooks Memorial Hospital.