Price Estimates/Transparency
Resources to Better Understand Your Health Care Costs
At Mary Lanning Healthcare, we agree that transparency about the cost of health care is important. Listed below are several resources to help patients understand and compare costs.
Obtain a Cost Estimate
For the most accurate estimate of the cost of care, patients can contact Mary Lanning Healthcare at or call 402-461-5038.
Mary Lanning Healthcare Price Estimator
The Price Estimator Tool from Mary Lanning Healthcare allows you to obtain an out-of-pocket cost estimate for selected services and/or items, providing additional information regarding average procedure charges and other details. If you have insurance, please have your insurance information available to complete the estimate. If you do not have insurance or do not include your insurance information, your estimate will be based on the uninsured charge for the service being performed.
Mary Lanning Healthcare Standard Charges
To improve price transparency, all U.S. hospitals and health systems are required to provide lists of standard hospital charges also called a chargemaster so patients can compare prices across hospitals. Here are a few considerations to keep in mind as you view the list of standard charges (chargemaster) (6-27-2023).
- These charges are rarely the price that patients pay. The chargemaster lists the dollar amount set for each service prior to insurance contract/benefit plan discounts or self-pay discounts being applied, so the price patients pay tends to be less than the standard charge.
- Hospital charges differ from patient to patient for the same service depending upon variations in treatment, such as length of stay, difficulty of procedure, medications, complications and/or pre-existing conditions.
- Patients who are eligible for financial assistance also receive additional discounts.
- Items included in a charge vary across hospital systems. For example, what’s included in one hospital’s charge for room and board may differ from other hospital’s charge some hospitals bundle services together into a single charge that others may list separately.
- Looking at various hospital charges does not provide any indication of quality of service and outcomes.
Mary Lanning Healthcare Shoppable Services Prices
All hospitals and health systems also are required to post a list of at least 300 Shoppable Services along with the corresponding prices for each of those services. Each of these Shoppable Services includes the following amounts: Gross Charge, Discounted Cash Price, Payer-Specific Negotiated Charges, De-Identified Minimum Negotiated Charge, and De-Identified Maximum Negotiated Charge.
As with the list of standard hospital charges discussed above, the prices on the primary care procedures list represent the standard amount for each service prior to insurance contract/benefit plan discounts or self-pay discounts being applied. What a patient actually pays will depend on their unique benefit plan terms.
View the Shoppable Services Available at Mary Lanning Healthcare (6-27-2023).
