Pr discharge day management hospital ip/obs <=30 min on ecounter date at Mid Coast Hospital
123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, ME · MaineHealth · · NPI 1932164795
$191.20
Cash price 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.
$191.20
Gross charge 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.
$77.25 with Anthem vs $164.03 with Community Health Options — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $77.25 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $77.25 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | MHACO Government | $78.72 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $78.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Anthem | HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced | $84.64 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $88.84 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $88.84 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | HMO/PPO | $93.34 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | OAP | $95.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | PPO | $95.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $150.63 | ↓ -21% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Commercial | $154.84 | ↓ -19% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Maines Choice | $154.84 | ↓ -19% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $158.56 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | MHACO Commercial | $160.54 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Options | Commercial | $164.03 | ↓ -14% |
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Pr discharge day management hospital ip/obs <=30 min on ecounter date at other Maine hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Franklin Memorial Hospital | Farmington | $174.00 | $78.72 – $164.03 |
| Stephens Memorial Hospital | Norway | $230.90 | $78.72 – $164.03 |
| Lincoln Health | Damariscotta | $156.20 | $78.10 – $164.03 |
| Pen Bay Medical Center | Rockport | $363.10 | $78.02 – $181.55 |
| Spring Harbor Hospital | Westbrook | $344.10 | $77.25 – $163.34 |
| Waldo County General Hospital | Belfast | $205.20 | $78.72 – $164.03 |