An fluoro guide for cvp at Pen Bay Medical Center

6 Glen Cove Dr, Rockport, ME · MaineHealth · · NPI 1982645305

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

$784.25

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.

$784.25

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.

$17.24 with Anthem vs $281.12 with Cigna — 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 $17.24 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $17.41 ↓ -98%
Aetna MHACO Government $17.47 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $17.58 ↓ -98%
Humana Medicare Advantage $19.63 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $19.63 ↓ -97%
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced $22.47 ↓ -97%
Aetna HMO/PPO $24.27 ↓ -97%
Multiplan Commercial $32.74 ↓ -96%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $34.04 ↓ -96%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $34.04 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Commercial $34.46 ↓ -96%
Aetna MHACO Commercial $34.89 ↓ -96%
Community Health Options Commercial $36.61 ↓ -95%
Cigna Commercial $281.12 ↓ -64%

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An fluoro guide for cvp at other Maine hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Franklin Memorial Hospital Farmington $461.00 $17.47 – $36.61
Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway $484.45 $17.47 – $451.51
Lincoln Health Damariscotta $866.55 $17.47 – $42.00
Waldo County General Hospital Belfast $946.05 $17.47 – $119.00
Mid Coast Hospital Brunswick $784.25 $17.07 – $36.61
Spring Harbor Hospital Westbrook not published $17.07 – $35.92

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