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3073 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH · MaineHealth · · NPI 1760436216

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

$340.55

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.

$340.55

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.

$48.77 with United Healthcare vs $175.39 with Harvard Pilgrim 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
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $48.77 ↓ -86%
Anthem Medicare Advantage $49.26 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $49.75 ↓ -85%
Aetna MHACO Government $50.27 ↓ -85%
Humana Medicare Advantage $56.09 ↓ -84%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $56.09 ↓ -84%
Aetna HMO $68.12 ↓ -80%
Aetna HMO/PPO $68.12 ↓ -80%
Aetna PPO $68.12 ↓ -80%
Multiplan Commercial $95.55 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Commercial $100.58 ↓ -70%
Aetna MHACO Commercial $101.84 ↓ -70%
Community Health Options Commercial $103.70 ↓ -70%
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced $106.27 ↓ -69%
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO Pathway Enhanced $107.85 ↓ -68%
Cigna Commercial $163.98 ↓ -52%
Cigna OAP $163.98 ↓ -52%
Cigna PPO $163.98 ↓ -52%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Self-Insured $175.39 ↓ -48%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $175.39 ↓ -48%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maine's Choice $175.39 ↓ -48%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Fully Insured $175.39 ↓ -48%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $175.39 ↓ -48%

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