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Treat thigh fx growth plate at MaineHealth - Memorial Hospital
3073 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH · MaineHealth · · NPI 1760436216
$2,932.25
Cash price 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.
$2,932.25
Gross charge 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.
$601.55 with Cigna vs $1,427.44 with Community Health Options — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | OAP | $601.55 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | PPO | $601.55 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | MHACO Government | $666.55 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $671.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $678.66 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $685.38 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $766.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $772.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | HMO | $893.49 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | HMO/PPO | $893.49 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | PPO | $893.49 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,100.39 | ↓ -62% |
| Anthem | HMO/POS/PPO/Pathway Enhanced | $1,294.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,298.92 | ↓ -56% |
| Anthem | HMO/POS/PPO Pathway Enhanced | $1,346.87 | ↓ -54% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Maines Choice | $1,353.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Self-Insured | $1,353.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Maine's Choice | $1,353.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Fully Insured | $1,353.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare | Commercial | $1,353.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | MHACO Commercial | $1,384.37 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Options | Commercial | $1,427.44 | ↓ -51% |