CostGrade
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88/100

#122 nationally

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

89Th Avenue And Van Wyck Expressway, Jamaica, NY 11418 · (718) 262-6000

Charges close to what care is actually paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center billed $1.78 in list charges. That gap does not change a Medicare patient's bill — but it is where an uninsured or out-of-network bill starts.

Charge-to-payment
1.8x
volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced
42
inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in NY
#25
lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars
1/5
shown for context, not in the grade

How this grade was reached

Each component is scored against every other U.S. hospital in the same federal files, so the grade is a position in the country, not a pass mark we invented.

Inpatient charge markup 32.6/35

Better than 93% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 22.9/25

Better than 92% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 24.7/30

Better than 82% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 7.8/10

Better than 78% of U.S. hospitals.

What this hospital treats most

The ten procedures it billed Medicare for most often, with its charge beside the national middle.

Procedure Patients Charged Actually paid vs national
Comprehensive Observation Services

APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit

243 $11,073 $3,081 -43%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

190 $45,146 $28,131 -31%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

73 $26,796 $19,884 -38%
Heart Attack (severe)

MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay

50 $22,517 $21,526 -63%
COPD (severe)

MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay

36 $33,921 $16,456 -19%
Hip or Thigh Bone Surgery (with complications)

MS-DRG 481 · Inpatient stay

32 $44,566 $27,660 -47%
Stroke (with complications)

MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay

31 $33,989 $15,809 -25%
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay

31 $22,289 $12,754 -27%
Stroke (severe)

MS-DRG 064 · Inpatient stay

30 $50,958 $30,524 -33%
Fainting

MS-DRG 312 · Inpatient stay

30 $18,445 $13,792 -50%

Where its charges run furthest above the national middle

Only procedures it performed at least eleven times, so a single unusual case cannot produce the headline.

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)

MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay

$178,308 $65,681 about average
Skin Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 603 · Inpatient stay

$28,900 $15,297 -5%
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay

$36,088 $19,923 -11%
Respiratory Failure

MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay

$42,341 $18,086 -13%
Level 2 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures

APC 5222 · Hospital outpatient visit

$32,255 $9,661 -15%
COPD (severe)

MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay

$33,921 $16,456 -19%
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (severe)

MS-DRG 640 · Inpatient stay

$38,307 $20,322 -21%
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5112 · Hospital outpatient visit

$8,522 $1,829 -24%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5113 · Hospital outpatient visit

$6,524 $3,683 -68%
Heart Attack (severe)

MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay

$22,517 $21,526 -63%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit

$10,424 $3,714 -59%
Transient Ischemia without Thrombolytic

MS-DRG 069 · Inpatient stay

$17,101 $12,906 -59%
Sepsis

MS-DRG 870 · Inpatient stay

$115,213 $77,087 -57%
Heart Attack (with complications)

MS-DRG 281 · Inpatient stay

$19,507 $14,856 -55%
Seizures without Major Complications

MS-DRG 101 · Inpatient stay

$18,371 $14,191 -55%
Hip Replacement with Principal Diagnosis of Hip Fracture without Major Complications

MS-DRG 522 · Inpatient stay

$39,125 $27,088 -54%

What this page cannot tell you

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  • It is not a quality rating. A hospital with a high markup may be excellent, and one with a low markup may not be. We checked: across every U.S. hospital, markup and the CMS quality star rating barely move together.
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