Guides
The questions behind the prices, answered once.
- Cash price or insurance: how to compare
When a hospital’s cash price can be lower than what you’d pay through your insurance plan, and the questions to ask before you choose.
- What a hospital facility charge covers (and what it doesn’t)
The hospital price for a scan or procedure is the facility charge. What it includes, what is billed separately, and why the final bill can differ.
- How to ask a hospital for its cash price
What to say when you call a hospital for a self-pay price: the code to quote, what to ask about separate bills, and getting it in writing.
- Good Faith Estimates and the $400 dispute rule
Uninsured and self-pay patients can get a written estimate and dispute a bill $400 or more above it. Who qualifies, the 120-day deadline and the $25 fee.