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: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield lists clinicians individually: 84% of the 99,960 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s files name 99,000 providers for this procedure; 22,147 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Nurse Practitioner, Family Medicine and Clinic/Center — 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: These prices come from the file set every Blue plan publishes centrally for members of other Blue plans (BlueCard). It may leave out networks the plan publishes only on its own site.
State
Providers
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Organisations
Zip codes
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25th pct
Median
75th pct
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vs Medicare
“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.