Macro exam dissect molec study ea 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

$118.75

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.

$118.75

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.

$7.16 with Anthem vs $84.34 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 $7.16 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $7.23 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $7.30 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $8.15 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Advantage $8.15 ↓ -93%
Multiplan Commercial $13.85 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Commercial $14.58 ↓ -88%
Community Health Options Commercial $14.92 ↓ -87%
Aetna MHACO Government $26.35 ↓ -78%
Aetna HMO/PPO $35.53 ↓ -70%
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced $41.26 ↓ -65%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $49.46 ↓ -58%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $49.46 ↓ -58%
Aetna MHACO Commercial $51.78 ↓ -56%
Cigna Commercial $84.34 ↓ -29%

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Macro exam dissect molec study ea at other Maine hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Franklin Memorial Hospital Farmington $73.75 $12.54 – $61.73
Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway $99.85 $12.54 – $93.06
Lincoln Health Damariscotta $72.85 $12.54 – $66.15
Waldo County General Hospital Belfast $22.95 $9.22 – $21.62
Mid Coast Hospital Brunswick $106.90 $7.09 – $75.47
Spring Harbor Hospital Westbrook not published $7.09 – $55.10

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