About MyCarePrice

MyCarePrice is a price information site for common outpatient procedures. We publish the verified Medicare anchor for a procedure and explain, in plain billing language, how the facility type changes the bill, so you can ask a complete price question before service. Prices only. That limit is deliberate, and it is stated on every page.

Who publishes this site

This site is published by MyCarePrice. Contact runs through the contact form. We do not name a person as author or owner on this site. Procedure and guide pages are published in the editorial voice of MyCarePrice.

What we publish

• Verified Medicare anchors from named CMS sources, with source name, year, and verification date on every page and in our checked-in data.
• Plain explanations of professional versus facility payment, Physician Fee Schedule versus OPPS, and why the same CPT code costs more in a hospital outpatient department than in an imaging center, ASC, or office.
• Billing questions and checklists that help patients get an all-in price in writing before service.

What we do not publish

• No diagnosis, treatment, or should-you-get-this-test content. Care decisions belong with you and your clinician.
• No invented self-pay prices. A self-pay range appears only where it can be verified from a public source under our method.
• No hospital list prices presented as patient prices. Chargemaster amounts are not what most patients pay.
• No facility quality ratings or recommendations about where you should go.

Editorial standards

Every dollar figure must trace to a named CMS or authoritative public source recorded in our data file with a verification date. If a figure cannot be verified, the page ships without it and says so. Medicare anchors are labeled as Medicare anchors, never blended into a self-pay range. Structured data matches visible content. Pages carry a last-verified date for their anchors and repeat the site rule: confirm your price in writing before service.

Content is written in plain language for the price conversation, the way you would talk with a billing office. We avoid hype and do not manufacture statistics, reviews, or testimonials.

How we research and write

Each procedure page starts from a CPT code and its official descriptor. We look up the code in the Physician Fee Schedule file published by the Medicare Administrative Contractor for Michigan Locality 01 (WPS GHA) and, for hospital outpatient department services, in the OPPS addenda that accompany the CMS final rule for the year. We copy the amount exactly as published, record the source name, source year, and the date we checked it in a structured data file, and render the page from that file so the same figure cannot differ between pages. Guides are written from primary rules and agency pages (CMS, HHS, the Federal Register, state agencies), and each states what it checked and when.

We write the explanation after the number is fixed. A page explains what is included in the code, what bills separately (professional fee, facility fee, anesthesia, pathology), what changes with the setting, and what to ask the billing office. Where an arithmetic example appears, it is labelled as an illustration with stated inputs, never as a typical patient price.

How often we update

Medicare publishes new fee schedules and a new OPPS final rule each year, usually effective January 1, with mid-year updates. We re-verify anchors when the new files are available and when a reader reports a discrepancy. The date on each page shows the last verification, and older dates mean we have not re-checked that figure since. Methodology details and change notes are on the methodology page.

Independence

MyCarePrice is not owned by, paid by, or affiliated with any hospital, imaging center, surgery center, insurer, or billing company. We do not accept payment for placement, we do not rank or recommend facilities, and we do not carry affiliate links. The price-check resources directory lists official public tools for the reader's convenience and is not an endorsement.

Corrections policy

If you find an error in a CPT code, anchor figure, source citation, or explanation, send the page URL and the correction through the contact form. We verify corrections against the primary CMS source, fix confirmed errors, and note the verification date change on the page and in the data file. Material corrections are logged in the Methodology change notes.

Advertising

No ads are shown and no ad scripts are loaded at present. The site carries an ads.txt file for future eligibility. The site does use Google Analytics to count visits, as described in the privacy policy. If advertising is enabled later, it will not change how anchors are selected or calculated.

Policies

See the privacy policy, terms of use, disclaimer, and methodology.

Contact

Use the contact form. For corrections, include the page URL. We do not provide medical advice and cannot quote a price for a specific facility. For a price, contact the facility billing office using the questions in our Patient Playbook.