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Widest spread in the state
The same mri lumbar spine without contrast runs $244 to $4,297 in New York
$244 River Hospital Clinicsmedian $625$4,297 Samaritan Medical Center
18× between the cheapest and the dearest of the 121 hospitals with at least 5 published plan rates for it; the explorer also shows thinner cells, so its range can run wider.
Biggest gap between two insurers, same hospital
At Montefiore St Luke'S Cornwall, Cigna pays 15.6× what UnitedHealthcare pays for the same mri brain with and without contrast
UnitedHealthcare$589
Cigna$9,213
Same building, same procedure, same code. The difference is which card is in your wallet.
Furthest above the Medicare benchmark
Westchester Medical Center is paid 4.4× the Medicare rate across everything it prices
100%Medicare
200%state median
443%this hospital
Medicare’s payment is hospital-specific and roughly pegged to the cost of care. The median across this hospital’s 61 procedures is 443% of it, against a New York median of 200%.
Highest price over estimated cost
NYU Langone hospitals are paid 5.3× what it is estimated to cost them to deliver care
NYU Langone5.3×
WMCHealth4.6×
NewYork-Presbyterian4.5×
Rochester Regional Health4.3×
Cost estimated from each hospital’s own federal cost report (HCRIS) — the same filings state regulators use. Estimates, not accounting truth.
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