Cap nerve 2x15mm at Franklin Memorial Hospital

111 Franklin Health Commons, Farmington, ME · MaineHealth · · NPI 1922791417

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Sep 9, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$1,780.00

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.

$1,780.00

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.

$534.00 with Anthem vs $1,673.20 with Multiplan — 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 Medicare Advantage $534.00 ↓ -70%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $534.00 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $534.00 ↓ -70%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $550.02 ↓ -69%
Aetna HMO/PPO $1,323.61 ↓ -26%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maine's Choice $1,349.06 ↓ -24%
Cigna Commercial $1,489.86 ↓ -16%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $1,498.94 ↓ -16%
Community Health Options Commercial $1,551.80 ↓ -13%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,587.05 ↓ -11%
Multiplan Commercial $1,673.20 ↓ -6%
Aetna MHACO Commercial not published by hospital —
Aetna MHACO Government not published by hospital —
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO Pathway Enhanced not published by hospital —

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Cap nerve 2x15mm at other Maine hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway $1,998.00 $779.22 – $1,898.10
Lincoln Health Damariscotta $4,180.00 $789.64 – $1,953.32
Pen Bay Medical Center Rockport $2,857.00 $145.18 – $172.96
Spring Harbor Hospital Westbrook $2,250.00 $839.16 – $1,878.12
Waldo County General Hospital Belfast $4,708.00 $915.88 – $2,147.76
Mid Coast Hospital Brunswick $3,420.00 $126.37 – $168.98

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