Healthcare Prices
We’ve put together the most common price factors so that you can easily understand your medical billing statement.
Healthcare Prices Explained
More and more people are opting for direct payment for healthcare services. We’ve put together the most common price factors so that you can easily understand your medical billing statement and also to explain the way we compute our estimated national average price.
Healthcare Price Components
Region
Daily expenses, population health fashions, the handiness of doctors, and the number of insurers in a region can have an impact on prices between states, cities, or even ZIP code.
Insurance
Insurance companies bargain with hospitals to fix pricing for their members, hence patients who are not insured may have to pay extra
Network
Doctors and hospitals that are not in an insurer’s network don’t provide similar negotiated discounts to patients who are on other managed care plans.
Provider
Specialists charge more than primary care providers owing to their high specializations in specific fields. But remember higher prices may not necessarily guarantee a high-quality care.
Facility
Operating costs generally re responsible for making hospital care more expensive than ambulatory surgical centers, which are generally more expensive than urgent care or physician’s offices
Negotiation
The medical bill is the point of initiation. Patients who want to pay but are not willing or are not able to pay the complete price can try to bargain for a lesser price.
One procedure. Dissimilar prices?
The amount you pay depends upon how you pay and who’s negotiating for you. Some hospitals have confirmed self-pay rates for some procedures, like predetermined pricing for a specific surgery with a specified number of days of hospital stay. Confirmed cash rates usually aren’t established for all procedures, if they present at all. Our prices make use of the information below to negotiate an affordable price for direct payment.
Our cost comparison algorithm makes use of these 6 prices to estimate the national average collaborated price
How does Doctor360 estimate prices?
Estimated National Average
We use a proprietary algorithm so that patients can self-pay with a just point of comparison for bundled prices, which involve a weighted average of charge master prices, discounts, and insurance-negotiated prices.
MRI with Contrast
$1586
Estimated National Average Price
Doctor360 Negotiated Price
Many healthcare cost comparison sites just show an estimated price, not the actual price but our listed price is the actual price you payand not an estimate. Our pre-negotiated, discounted prices involve hospital, physician, anesthesia, and pathology fees unless otherwise stated in the details of the procedure details.
MRI with Contrast
$692
Doctor360 Price
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Negotiating is done by us for you. Make a comparison of costs and pay one packaged price prior to your service
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Know what you have to pay directly. Prices involve the most general fees. No hidden bills.
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