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Tonsillectomy (child under 12) at Kings County Hospital Center
451 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY · NYC Health + Hospitals · · NPI 1043224355
$6,703.58
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.
$790.00
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.
$157.93 with Healthfirst vs $14,000.71 with Elderplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthfirst | HARP_Managed Medicaid HMO Primary Services | $157.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthfirst | HARP_Managed Medicaid HMO Specialist Services | $252.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Affinity | CHP | $277.96 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthfirst | CHP | $284.27 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthfirst | MAP_Medicare Advantage Specialist Services | $293.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | All Products | $305.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $305.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthfirst | MAP_Medicare Advantage Primary Services | $309.54 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | HARP | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | MLTC | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Elderplan | MAP | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | MAP | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthfirst | Small Group | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Fidelis | Managed Medicaid | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Elderplan | Medicare Advantage | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Centerlight | PACE | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthfirst | Medicare Advantage PPO | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Fidelis | CHP | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Elderplan | MLTC | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Fidelis | FHP | $315.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Local 1199 | All Products | $316.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $320.60 | ↓ -95% |
| Centers Plan for Healthy Living | Medicare Advantage | $328.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Healthfirst | Medicare Advantage | $331.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Hamaspik | Medicare Advantage | $331.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellcare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $341.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | CHP | $347.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 1-2 | $379.03 | ↓ -94% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 200-250 | $389.05 | ↓ -94% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 1-2 | $389.05 | ↓ -94% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 3-4 | $389.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | All Products | $394.83 | ↓ -94% |
| Fidelis | QHC | $420.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Fidelis | MAP | $454.84 | ↓ -93% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $568.55 | ↓ -92% |
| Fidelis | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $568.55 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthfirst | EXCHANGE | $963.31 | ↓ -86% |
| MetroPlus | HARP | $1,588.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 1-2 | $1,733.96 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 3-4 | $1,733.96 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 200-250 | $1,733.96 | ↓ -74% |
| MetroPlus | Managed Medicaid | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| MetroPlus | CHP | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Senior Whole Health | MLTC | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| MetroPlus | Goldcare 1 & 2 | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| MetroPlus | Gold | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| MetroPlus | SNP | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Carelon | Managed Medicaid_HARP_CHP | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Managed Medicaid_HARP_MLTC_MAP | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | EXCHANGE | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Senior Whole Health | MAP | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Fidelis | HARP_Managed Medicaid | $1,743.68 | ↓ -74% |
| VNSNY | Medicaid SNP | $1,778.55 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | HARP | $1,778.55 | ↓ -73% |
| VNSNY | MAP | $1,778.55 | ↓ -73% |
| Affinity | HARP_Managed Medicaid | $1,778.55 | ↓ -73% |
| Carelon (Amida Care) | Managed Medicaid | $1,778.55 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | CHP | $1,778.55 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | Essential Plan | $1,918.05 | ↓ -71% |
| EMBLEM | Essential Plan 3-4 | $2,179.60 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | CHP | $2,179.60 | ↓ -67% |
| EMBLEM | Essential Plan 1-2 | $2,353.97 | ↓ -65% |
| Healthfirst | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,421.40 | ↓ -64% |
| Healthfirst | MAP | $2,421.40 | ↓ -64% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,536.42 | ↓ -62% |
| UNITED | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $2,713.97 | ↓ -60% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 1-2 | $3,573.68 | ↓ -47% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 200-250 | $3,573.68 | ↓ -47% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 3-4 | $3,573.68 | ↓ -47% |
| UNITED | HARP | $3,730.03 | ↓ -44% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 3-4 | $3,923.28 | ↓ -41% |
| VNSNY | Medicare Advantage | $7,000.36 | ↑ +4% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $7,000.36 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $7,000.36 | ↑ +4% |
| VACCN | All Products | $7,000.36 | ↑ +4% |
| VNSNY | Medicare SNP | $7,000.36 | ↑ +4% |
| Centers Plan for Healthy Living | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $7,280.37 | ↑ +9% |
| Fidelis | EXCHANGE | $9,940.51 | ↑ +48% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $10,500.53 | ↑ +57% |
| EMBLEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $10,500.53 | ↑ +57% |
| Elderplan | MAP_Medicare Advantage_MLTC | $14,000.71 | ↑ +109% |
| United Behavioral Health | Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| United Behavioral Health | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Behavioral Health | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
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Tonsillectomy (child under 12) at other New-york hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Woodhull Medical Center | Brooklyn | $6,772.21 | $157.93 – $10,500.53 |
| South Brooklyn Health | Brooklyn | not published | $284.27 – $14,000.71 |
| Bellevue Hospital Center | NY 10016 | $6,772.21 | $153.51 – $10,500.53 |
| Queens Hospital Center | Jamaica | $6,772.21 | $153.89 – $10,500.53 |
| Elmhurst Hospital Center | NY 11373 | not published | $276.99 – $14,000.71 |
| Harlem Hospital Center | New York | not published | $276.32 – $14,000.71 |
| Jacobi Medical Center | Bronx | not published | $284.27 – $14,000.71 |
| Lincoln Medical Center | Bronx | not published | $284.27 – $14,000.71 |