Warde islet cell antibody zinc transporter 8 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

$139.90

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.

$139.90

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.

$10.67 with Anthem vs $132.07 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 $10.67 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $23.57 ↓ -83%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $23.57 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $23.57 ↓ -83%
Humana Medicare Advantage $23.57 ↓ -83%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $23.57 ↓ -83%
Anthem Medicare Advantage $23.81 ↓ -83%
Aetna MHACO Government $24.04 ↓ -83%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $24.28 ↓ -83%
Aetna HMO/PPO $32.17 ↓ -77%
Cigna PPO $43.33 ↓ -69%
Cigna OAP $43.33 ↓ -69%
Community Health Options Commercial $49.39 ↓ -65%
Multiplan Commercial $131.51 ↓ -6%
United Healthcare Commercial $132.07 ↓ -6%
Aetna MHACO Commercial not published by hospital —

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Warde islet cell antibody zinc transporter 8 at other Maine hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Franklin Memorial Hospital Farmington $202.30 $23.57 – $190.16
Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway $113.25 $23.57 – $106.46
Lincoln Health Damariscotta $134.00 $23.57 – $125.96
Pen Bay Medical Center Rockport $139.90 $23.57 – $131.51
Waldo County General Hospital Belfast $208.15 $23.57 – $196.08
Spring Harbor Hospital Westbrook not published $23.57 – $47.99

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