Hospital for Special Surgery
Quality measures
Mortality
Same as National AverageMeasures the rate at which patients die within 30 days of hospital admission for specific conditions. A lower mortality rate indicates better outcomes.
Safety of Care
Better than National AverageTracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.
Readmissions
Same as National AverageMeasures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.
Patient Experience
Same as National AverageBased on the HCAHPS survey — patient satisfaction with communication, cleanliness, pain management, and discharge information.
Patient survey detail — the questions feeding the Patient Experience domain above expand ↓
CMS computes the Patient Experience domain from the federal HCAHPS survey. Each bar below is one survey question; the percentage is the share of Hospital's recent patients who gave the most positive response. HCAHPS percentages aren't directly comparable across all measures — see the methodology page for how CMS weights them.
- Communication with Nurses 83%
- Communication with Doctors 83%
- Hospital Cleanliness 79%
- Hospital Quietness 52%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 90%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 83%
- Would Recommend Hospital 88%
Percentages represent patients who gave the most positive response. Survey conducted by CMS through the HCAHPS program.
Timely & Effective Care
Better than National AverageMeasures how quickly the hospital provides important treatments such as antibiotics for pneumonia or interventions for heart attacks.
Clinical Staff
Hospital for Special Surgery has 907 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.
Top specialties
- Orthopedic Surgery 146
- Physician Assistant 119
- Anesthesiology 87
- Internal Medicine 73
- Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation 63
- Diagnostic Radiology 63
- Rheumatology 42
- Nurse Practitioner 42
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 840 (93%)
- Offer telehealth
- 412 (45%)
Bill Medicare directly at the approved rate — patients only owe co-insurance/deductible.
Indicated by the clinician in their CMS profile as routinely providing virtual visits.
Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)
484 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 293 (61%) score above the national median of 85.5.
MIPS scoring is heavily compressed at the top of the 0–100 range, so individual scores are not a reliable consumer signal. We surface roster-level coverage and the share above the national median instead.
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-07-18. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.
Find a Doctor
Search the 907 clinicians affiliated with Hospital for Special Surgery. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Matthew Abola, MD ProceduresOrthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Ami Abraham, DO Open PaymentsPulmonary Disease📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Jeffrey M. Abrams, MD Open PaymentsCardiovascular Disease (cardiology)✓ Medicare
- Rory Abrams, MD Open PaymentsNeurology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Ghaith F. Abu Zeinah Open PaymentsMedical Oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Internal Medicine📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Shakil Ahmed, MD Open PaymentsAnesthesiology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Juliet B. Aizer, MD Open PaymentsRheumatology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- John N. Allan, MD Open PaymentsMedical Oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (crna)✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Eleni Andreopoulou, MD Open PaymentsMedical Oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Pangiota Andreopoulou, MD Open PaymentsEndocrinology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Stephen Andrus, MD Open PaymentsPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Endocrinology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Carlito Arenas, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Rheumatology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Mariam Ashraf, MD Open PaymentsAnesthesiology✓ Medicare
- Anca D. Askanase, MD Open PaymentsRheumatology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Diagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Edward A. Athanasian, MD Open PaymentsOrthopedic Surgery📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Family Practice📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Henal Avani, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
No clinicians match that search. Try a broader term like "internal medicine" or just a last name.
Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-07-18. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here. Procedure volumes are Medicare fee-for-service counts from the CMS clinician utilization file (all practice locations, not just this hospital). Industry payment totals are from CMS Open Payments, program year 2024, and include meals, travel, consulting, and speaking fees; payments are legal and common — we show them for transparency, not as a quality judgment.
Pricing & Costs
This hospital participates in price transparency under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. View 164 published procedures — gross charges, cash prices, and per-payer negotiated rates where available.
Median percent difference across the 164 DRGs where this hospital has a comparable published price and the comparison cohort has enough hospitals to compute a stable median.
Facility Information
- Licensed beds
- 205
- Facility type
- Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership
- Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Emergency services
- No
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Nonprofit
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $9.5M
- List prices vs. actual cost
- ≈ 4× actual cost
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How Hospital for Special Surgery compares nearby
Compared with the 8 other acute-care hospitals within 25 miles — 9 facilities in all, CMS data only.
Among the 9 acute-care hospitals within 25 miles, Hospital for Special Surgery's overall star rating is 5★; the median among the 8 peers reporting it is 4★.
Hospital for Special Surgery has the highest patient experience (HCAHPS) star rating of the 9 acute-care hospitals within 25 miles.
| Measure | This facility | Nearby median | Best nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall star rating reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | 5★ | 4★ | 5★ |
| Patient experience (HCAHPS) star reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | 4★ | 2★ | 3★ |
| Mortality reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Better than National Average | Better than National Average |
| Safety of Care reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Better than National Average | Better than National Average | Better than National Average |
| Readmissions reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Better than National Average | Better than National Average |
The comparison group
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Metropolitan Hospital Center (Acute Care — New York)
- Bellevue Hospital Center (Acute Care)
- NYU Langone Hospitals
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
Cohort: within 25 miles · CMS data period 2026-06 · method cohort-v1 · comparisons are never affected by claiming or payment. How nearby comparisons work
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About this data
Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.
Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.