Payers shown: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
Prices shown: surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? These are doctors' (professional) fees only. If this is done in a hospital or surgery center, the facility bills its own fee on top — for the room, nurses and equipment — often larger than the doctor's. That fee is not included here.
Who is counted: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City lists clinicians individually: 100% of the 19,392 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City’s files name 3,937 providers for this procedure; 150 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Urology and Specialist — 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: Care outside its home state: Blue Cross Blue Shield plans share one national network, BlueCard, for members treated in other states. Those prices are published centrally, not by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, so they are not included here. Hospital stays: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City's files price whole hospital stays for only a handful of hospitals, so its hospital-stay maps show very few places.
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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.