Prices shown: surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments
Doctor’s fee or facility fee?This mixes two kinds of price: 79% are doctors' fees and 21% are facility fees paid to a hospital or surgery center. Facility fees are usually far higher, so a wide spread can be the two kinds side by side, not providers charging wildly different amounts. Either way, expect a doctor's fee and a facility fee as separate bills when this is done in a hospital or surgery center.
Who is counted: Ohio Health Choice lists clinicians individually: 99% of the 33,174 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. Ohio Health Choice’s files name 5,124 providers for this procedure; 745 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Physician Assistant, Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine — 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: No index of files: Ohio Health Choice publishes no table of contents, so its numbered files were found one by one (18 of numbers 1-40 exist, October 2026).
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25th pct
Median
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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 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. The prices on this map include a facility fee, which Medicare pays separately and which is not in its physician price, so the ratio here runs high and is a rough guide only.
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.