Doctor’s fee or facility fee? These are the emergency doctor's fees only. The hospital bills its own emergency-room facility fee on top, usually several times larger, and it is not included here.
Who is counted: AultCare lists clinicians individually: 99% of the 8,635 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. AultCare’s files name 276 providers for this procedure; 218 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Emergency Medicine, Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner — and the practices, clinics and hospitals. Insurers attach their whole fee schedule to every contracted provider, so the rest are clinicians listed at a price for something they never do; counting them would inflate the provider count and pull the typical price towards the fee schedule’s floor.
Not on this map: One of AultCare's four network files is missing: the index lists a fourth file (PTHP, covering 20 HMO-POS and retiree plans), but the link is refused and AultCare's page does not post it (October 2026). Plans that rent another network are not here: about half of AultCare's 2,246 plans list no AultCare file, and its page points them to rented networks (First Health, FrontPath, Ohio Health Choice, MedCost, Ohio PPO Connect, QCP). Hospital stays: AultCare's files have no prices for whole hospital stays (the kind billed as one amount per stay), so there are no hospital-stay maps for it. It may pay hospitals by the day or as a share of their charges, which these maps cannot show.
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“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare pays a doctor for the same service in the same state under its physician fee schedule (RVU26D, in force from 2026-10-01) — the lower price a doctor is paid when a hospital or surgery center provides the room and equipment. Insurers write their contracts as a share of Medicare, so 1.3x means the insurer pays 30% more than Medicare would; Medicare Advantage plans generally pay close to 1.0x.
This is a statewide summary. Prices vary far more between towns and between practices than these medians suggest; zip-code and provider-level detail is not published here; this specific data can be requested here.