New Yorkers pay some of the nation’s highest bills for medical care, but those already-steep charges can vary by more than $100,000 from hospital to hospital to treat the same illness, The NY Post has learned. Records of hospital payments provided to The Post by Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) show a staggering range of prices for treating the same medical diagnosis. 

University Hospital of Brooklyn, for example, was paid $5,000 to insert a cardiac defibrillator. But at Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens, the same procedure cost $133,000, according to records.

Hikind said he’s going to ask Gov. Spitzer to look into the costs, and believes an independent investigator with subpoena power may be needed.

NYP