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.
For Baptist Anderson and Baptist Anderson South, click here.
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.
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.
The second CMS format requires a comprehensive listing of all items and services in a machine readable format noting standard charges for these categories:
- Gross charges
- Discounted cash price
- Payer-specific negotiated charges
- De-identified minimum and maximum negotiated charges
The gross and negotiated charges are based on historical patient activity. These will be updated periodically.
To obtain a machine-readable list of these standard charges from the Charge Description Master (CDM) or by Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) for our Baptist Memorial Hospital facilities in West Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, please choose one of the selections below. These files are generated using an interaction of actual patient activity with Baptist’s contracted payors to present a modeled reimbursement by item.
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Price Transparency Machine Readable Files
Arkansas
- BMH Crittenden Standard Charges (.ZIP, 7.4 MB)
- NEA Baptist Standard Charges (.ZIP, 3.3 MB)
Mississippi
- BMH Anderson Standard Charges (.ZIP, 988 KB)
- BMH Anderson-South Standard Charges (.ZIP, 768 KB)
- BMC Attala Standard Charges (.ZIP, 6.1 MB)
- BMH Booneville Standard Charges (.ZIP, 4.4 MB)
- BMH Calhoun Standard Charges (.ZIP, 1.6 MB)
- BMH Desoto Standard Charges (.ZIP, 7.1 MB)
- BMC Leake Standard Charges (.ZIP, 6.0 MB)
- BMH Golden Triangle Standard Charges (.ZIP, 5.5 MB)
- BMC Jackson Standard Charges (.ZIP, 5.2 MB)
- BMH North Mississippi Standard Charges (.ZIP, 6.0 MB)
- BMH Union County Standard Charges (.ZIP, 4.8 MB)
- BMC Yazoo Standard Charges (.ZIP, 6.4 MB)
Tennessee
- BMH Carroll County Standard Charges (.ZIP, 6.9 MB)
- BMH Children's Standard Charges (.ZIP, 7.1 MB)
- BMH Collierville Standard Charges (.ZIP, 7.7 MB)
- BMH Memphis Standard Charges (.ZIP, 20.0 MB)
- BMH Tipton Standard Charges (.ZIP, 6.5 MB)
- BMH Union City Standard Charges (.ZIP, 7.1 MB)
- BMH Women's Standard Charges (.ZIP, 7.1 MB)
- Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital Charges (.ZIP, 636 KB)
No Surprise Billing
- No Surprise Billing Notice for Arkansas [PDF, 125 KB]
- No Surprise Billing Notice for Mississippi [PDF, 125 KB]
- No Surprise Billing Notice for Tennessee [PDF, 125 KB]
Right to Good Faith Estimate
Right to Good Faith Estimate Notice [PDF, 188 KB]