Estimate Your Out-of-Pocket Baptist Medical Expenses

Two Tools for Pricing Transparency

Researching your medical costs can be very complicated. At Baptist Memorial Health Care, we're making it easier. As part of our efforts to be a national leader in price transparency, we offer two unique tools to help you get an accurate estimate of your out-of-pocket expenses for hundreds of different procedures and services. Whether you have insurance or not, you can get a customized estimate for your care at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis and our other Baptist Memorial Hospital facilities in West Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.

Guest Estimator Calculator

Our new Guest Estimator is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-compliant calculating tool that uses our electronic medical records database to give you an estimate of your out-of-pocket costs based on your location, procedure or service, and your specific insurance plan. The Guest Estimator provides costs for a select range of outpatient or inpatient procedures to allow you to compare our costs to other facilities'.

About CMS

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the nation’s major healthcare programs including Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, and the state and federal health insurance marketplaces. The agency aims to provide a healthcare system with better care, access to coverage, and improved health. To further that mission, starting January 1, 2021, each hospital operating in the United States is required to provide clear, accessible pricing information online about the procedures and services they provide in two formats:

• In a display of shoppable services in a consumer-friendly format.
• As a comprehensive machine-readable file listing all items and services.

Our new Guest Estimator helps us meet the first requirement of presenting our patients with a consumer-friendly format to compare prices across hospitals and estimate their out of pocket cost before going to the hospital.

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Baptist Expense Navigator

Or, you can use our original Baptist Expense Navigator, a medical cost calculator that averages the costs of a near comprehensive set of outpatient procedures and inpatient case categories at Baptist Memorial Hospital locations. Whether you have Medicare, other insurance or are uninsured, the Expense Navigator can help you better plan for your Baptist medical expenses.

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Disclaimer: Estimates created by Guest Estimator and Baptist Expense Navigator are not guaranteed, and may change due to a number of other factors.

Understanding Hospital "Charges"

A hospital "charge" is not the same as "expected payment." "Charge" is the amount billed for a service. In the vast majority of cases, hospitals are paid considerably less than the billed amount. Because each person's case is different based on that patient's medical condition, a given patient's charge will not necessarily be the same as the average or median charge. Furthermore, the actual amount paid by a patient will depend on that patient's insurance coverage.