Prices shown: surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments
Doctor’s fee or facility fee?This mixes two kinds of price: 50% are doctors' fees and 50% are facility fees paid to a hospital or surgery center. Facility fees are usually far higher, so a wide spread can be the two kinds side by side, not providers charging wildly different amounts. Either way, expect a doctor's fee and a facility fee as separate bills when this is done in a hospital or surgery center. Where a state has both, the table and each state’s popup show the doctor’s fee and the facility fee side by side; their sum is a rough total for the visit, before anything else done during it.
Who is counted: Paramount lists clinicians individually: 90% of the 11,447 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. Paramount’s files name 11,355 providers for this procedure; 1,358 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Clinic/Center, Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies and Skilled Nursing Facility — 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: Hospital stays: Paramount'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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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.