Red blood cells leukocytes reduced irradiated each unit at MaineHealth - Memorial Hospital

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

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

$1,330.80

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.

$1,330.80

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.

$197.62 with Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare vs $1,124.50 with Anthem — 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
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Fully Insured $197.62 ↓ -85%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Self-Insured $197.62 ↓ -85%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maines Choice $197.62 ↓ -85%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Maine's Choice $197.62 ↓ -85%
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Commercial $197.62 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $255.80 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $255.80 ↓ -81%
Humana Medicare Advantage $255.80 ↓ -81%
Anthem Medicare Advantage $258.36 ↓ -81%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $263.47 ↓ -80%
Aetna HMO $716.67 ↓ -46%
Cigna OAP $724.00 ↓ -46%
Aetna PPO $740.54 ↓ -44%
Cigna PPO $741.23 ↓ -44%
Community Health Options Commercial $751.49 ↓ -44%
United Healthcare Commercial $802.69 ↓ -40%
Multiplan Commercial $810.19 ↓ -39%
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO Pathway Enhanced $866.35 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $1,060.88 ↓ -20%
Aetna HMO/PPO $1,090.74 ↓ -18%
Anthem HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced $1,124.50 ↓ -16%
Aetna MHACO Government not published by hospital —
Aetna MHACO Commercial not published by hospital —

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