Price Transparency
Community Hospital – Fairfax is dedicated to making our pricing available so that you can make more informed decisions about your healthcare costs. We provide a variety of resources to help you better understand the costs of your medical care and assist you in planning ahead for medical expenses.
Community Hospital - Fairfax Standard Charges
To improve price transparency, all U.S. hospitals and health systems are required to provide a lists of standard hospital charges, also called a chargemaster. This allows patients to compare prices across hospitals. Here are a few considerations to keep in mind as you view the list of standard charges.
- The charges are rarely the price patients pay. The chargemaster lists the dollar amount set for each service prior to insurance contract/benefit plan discounts for 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.
- 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 on charge for room and board may differ from other hospital’s charge. So one hospital may bundle services together into a single charge while another hospital may list each charge separately.
- Viewing hospital charges does not indicate quality of service or outcome.
Patient Price Estimator Tool
Community Hospital – Fairfax’s Patient Price Estimator provides approximate out-of-pocket costs for a specific medical procedure or service. This pricing only includes the most common 300 medical services required by CMS. It includes gross charges, discounted cash prices, and payer-specific negotiated charges. If the service or the specific Insurance plan you are wanting is not found, please contact our patient accounts department.
Price Lists
To make medical pricing more transparent, all U.S. hospitals are required to provide the following pricing lists. The pricing is listed by the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes used by insurance companies. The lists are in a spreadsheet format.
Please note: The pricing lists below show charges prior to contract negotiations with individual insurance providers. They may be useful for comparing pricing with other hospitals but they do not indicate actual costs to patients.