Hla class i high defin qual at Mid Coast Hospital

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

$841.80

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.

$841.80

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.

$141.39 with Anthem vs $794.66 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 $141.39 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $323.75 ↓ -62%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $323.75 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $323.75 ↓ -62%
Humana Medicare Advantage $323.75 ↓ -62%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $323.75 ↓ -62%
Anthem Medicare Advantage $326.99 ↓ -61%
Aetna MHACO Government $330.22 ↓ -61%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $333.46 ↓ -60%
Aetna HMO/PPO $441.85 ↓ -48%
Cigna OAP $594.31 ↓ -29%
Community Health Options Commercial $678.40 ↓ -19%
Cigna PPO $680.17 ↓ -19%
Multiplan Commercial $791.29 ↓ -6%
United Healthcare Commercial $794.66 ↓ -6%
Aetna MHACO Commercial not published by hospital —

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Hla class i high defin qual at other Maine hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Franklin Memorial Hospital Farmington $1,942.50 $229.07 – $1,825.95
Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway $841.80 $260.42 – $791.29
Lincoln Health Damariscotta $1,383.20 $260.42 – $1,300.21
Pen Bay Medical Center Rockport $841.80 $199.85 – $791.29
Waldo County General Hospital Belfast $608.30 $244.35 – $573.02
Spring Harbor Hospital Westbrook not published $229.07 – $659.22

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