Health care in the Northeast
The most hospitals and doctors per person, the highest insurance coverage, and the highest bills. 38545 places across 2 cities.
What changes about health care in the Northeast
The Northeast has more physicians per capita than any other region and the densest cluster of academic medical centers in the world: NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, Columbia and Cornell in New York, Penn and Jefferson in Philadelphia, and the Boston hospitals a train ride away. Every state expanded Medicaid, and uninsured rates sit around five to seven percent, the lowest in the country.
That supply does not make care cheap. New York has some of the highest hospital prices in the United States, out-of-network surprise bills were common enough that the state wrote the first law against them, and a specialist appointment can take months even with good insurance. Philadelphia runs the country's largest safety-net gap after Hahnemann closed in 2019.
What changes for the patient: you are more likely to be insured and to live near a top hospital, but the deductible is high and the facility fee shows up on the bill. Urgent care is everywhere, the ER is expensive, and price comparison between hospitals a few blocks apart can vary by a factor of three.
Northeast cities in the directory
Doctors, urgent care centers, pharmacies, dentists and labs, with address and phone, in each of the 2 cities.