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: 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. Independence Blue Cross’s files name 11 providers for this procedure; 5 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it 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 in these files: Maternity care is often contracted as a case rate or a bundle outside the fee schedule — under a per-case or AP-DRG code set this site does not read (it reads CPT, HCPCS and MS-DRG). A hospital system paid that way is missing here, and such systems can be among the most expensive in a market.
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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“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 lower price a doctor is paid when a hospital or surgery center provides the room and equipment. 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.