STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
101 NICOLLS RD · STONY BROOK, NY · 11794 · 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 27 of 57 target procedures, commercial payers, 5x outlier cap. Based on 27 of 57 high-confidence target procedures. A broader all-codes view (every commercial billing code this hospital publishes, 7,455 codes) puts the score at 1.30x.
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL bills well above peers — about 2.92x the regional median overall. Within departments, Drugs/Pharmacy prices are notably high (10.00x, 1,257 codes); Therapy is comparatively affordable (0.69x). 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 4.41 mi away is ~44% cheaper overall.
St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has an overall price level of 1.64x vs. this hospital's 2.92x, with 5,302 procedures in common.
why?
Wide price spread (IQR ratio 6.3x) with 33% 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 | 1.16x | 2,082 | 80% |
| Inpatient | 1.01x | 1,564 | 50% |
| Drugs/Pharmacy | 10.00x | 1,257 | 81% |
| Other | 1.05x | 898 | 57% |
| Lab | 0.82x | 848 | 13% |
| Imaging | 1.00x | 544 | 52% |
| Cardiac | 0.91x | 141 | 39% |
| Emergency/Eval | 2.33x | 69 | 78% |
| Therapy | 0.69x | 54 | 24% |
Hospital info
- Type: Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership: Government - State
- Beds: 725
- Annual discharges: 37,090
- CMS overall quality star rating: 4/5
Methodology & sources
Prices extracted from this hospital's CMS-mandated machine-readable transparency file (45 CFR 180). Headline statistic: 10% trimmed mean across 27 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 STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.