Payers shown: BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Prices shown: surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? These are facility fees: what the insurer pays the hospital or surgery center itself. The doctors who treat you bill separately, on top of it.
Who is counted: BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina mostly lists practices, not individual clinicians: 84% of the 9,183 provider IDs (NPIs) it names belong to a practice, clinic or hospital, which stands for everyone who works there. So “providers” here mostly counts practices — one entry can cover many doctors — and is not comparable with insurers that list each clinician. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina’s files name 31 providers for this procedure; 29 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly General Acute Care Hospital — 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 BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, so they are not included here.
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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.