Doctor’s fee or facility fee? This is the hospital's own payment for the stay (the facility fee). Surgeons, anesthesiologists and other doctors bill separately, on top of it.
Who is counted: Independence Blue Cross mostly lists practices, not individual clinicians: 81% of the 14,682 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.
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 Independence Blue Cross, so they are not included here.
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25th pct
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vs Medicare
“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare actually paid hospitals in the same state for the same kind of stay in 2024, the newest year it has published: the average per stay, the patient’s share included, at hospitals with more than ten such stays. Medicare’s payment varies by hospital (wages, teaching, low-income patients), so this is a state average, not any one hospital’s rate. 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.