Payers shown: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont
Prices shown: every in-person setting
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. (About 4% of these prices are facility fees instead, which can show up as unusually high prices.) 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: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont lists clinicians individually: 97% of the 8,039 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 Vermont’s files name 2,269 providers for this procedure; 363 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Diagnostic Radiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology 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. Hospital stays: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont'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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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 price for a doctor's own office. 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.