HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER
506 LENOX AVENUE · NEW YORK, NY · 10037 · 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 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, 22,260 codes) puts the score at 1.03x.
HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER bills below peers — about 0.81x the regional median. Within departments, Lab prices are notably high (3.17x, 1,571 codes). The price spread is moderate (B grade), with some procedures priced unexpectedly high.
why?
Moderate price spread (IQR ratio 1.7x) with some outliers (8% 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 | 1.00x | 12,644 | 21% |
| Surgery | 0.89x | 6,330 | 35% |
| Inpatient | 1.00x | 4,588 | 70% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 1.15x | 2,260 | 64% |
| Lab | 3.17x | 1,571 | 80% |
| Imaging | 1.29x | 759 | 63% |
| Cardiac | 1.01x | 239 | 55% |
| Emergency/Eval | 1.00x | 169 | 25% |
| Therapy | 2.57x | 74 | 70% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Government - Local
- Beds: 217
- Annual discharges: 9,439
- CMS overall quality star rating: 1/5
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 HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER.