Even within the same city, hospitals can charge wildly different prices for similar care. We used Amino's Facility Cost Ratings™ — dollar signs that help employees identify cost-effective hospitals — to find the five most and least expensive hospitals in the New York City metropolitan area. Below is a peek into our data.

The most expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have the highest Facility Cost Rating™ in the New York City area, averaged across all insurers. Interestingly, the most expensive hospital has an F safety grade. Across the board, we found that there's no correlation between cost and quality.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
University Hospital of Brooklyn		F
NYU Langone Medical Center		B
University Medical Center at Princeton		A
Jersey Shore University Medical Center		B
NYC Health + Hospitals, Woodhull		B

The least expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have lowest Facility Cost Rating™ in the New York City area, averaged across all insurers. Two out of five have a D safety grade.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
St Johns Riverside ParkCare Hospital Pavillion		C
Forest Hills Hospital		D
University Hospital		D
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center		C
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, Grand Concourse Division		C

How we rate hospitals by cost

Amino’s Facility Cost Ratings™ are an easy to understand, symbolic system of dollar signs ranging from one dollar sign denoting “inexpensive” to four dollar signs denoting “expensive.”Facility Cost Ratings™ appear on the profiles of all facilities (hospitals, imaging centers, and urgent care centers) in our Amino's healthcare transparency product.

The Facility Cost Ratings™ you see in this post are averaged across all insurers. On Amino, employees see Facility Cost Ratings™ specific to their network and plan.