Flt3 gene analysis at Mid Coast Hospital

123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, ME · MaineHealth · · NPI 1932164795

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Sep 9, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$215.80

Cash price

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Discounted cash price

What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$215.80

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$36.25 with Anthem vs $203.72 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced $36.25 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $83.00 ↓ -62%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $83.00 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $83.00 ↓ -62%
Humana Medicare Advantage $83.00 ↓ -62%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $83.00 ↓ -62%
Anthem Medicare Advantage $83.83 ↓ -61%
Aetna MHACO Government $84.66 ↓ -61%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $85.49 ↓ -60%
Aetna HMO/PPO $113.28 ↓ -48%
Cigna OAP $152.35 ↓ -29%
Community Health Options Commercial $173.92 ↓ -19%
Cigna PPO $174.37 ↓ -19%
Multiplan Commercial $202.85 ↓ -6%
United Healthcare Commercial $203.72 ↓ -6%
Aetna MHACO Commercial not published by hospital —

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Flt3 gene analysis at other Maine hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Franklin Memorial Hospital Farmington $271.90 $81.57 – $255.59
Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway $96.70 $37.71 – $91.87
Lincoln Health Damariscotta $291.00 $83.00 – $273.54
Pen Bay Medical Center Rockport $215.80 $83.00 – $202.85
Waldo County General Hospital Belfast $291.00 $83.00 – $274.12
Spring Harbor Hospital Westbrook not published $83.00 – $169.00

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