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Prices only. No diagnosis or treatment advice. Confirm your price in writing before service.

Patient playbook

Billing questions only. These guides do not give medical advice and do not tell you whether to get a procedure. They help you get a complete price in writing before service.

Guide 1

How to ask for the cash price

Exact wording, what a complete quote includes, and what to write down. Includes the day-of-change question most people forget.

Guide 2

Good Faith Estimates and the No Surprises Act

When an uninsured or self-pay patient is entitled to an estimate, what it should list, and how the dispute process works when the bill exceeds the estimate by $400 or more.

Guide 3 - Checklist

Questions to ask billing before your procedure

A printable-style checklist covering CPT code, setting, anesthesia, pathology, and what happens if the plan changes.

How to use this playbook

  1. Start on your procedure page and write down the CPT code and the Medicare anchor for your setting.
  2. Use Guide 1 to ask each facility the same all-in cash price question, then Guide 3 as the checklist for the call itself.
  3. If you are uninsured or self-pay, use Guide 2 to ask for that written price as a Good Faith Estimate.
  4. Compare settings in the Price Anchor Explorer before you book. Confirm the chosen price in writing before service.

These guides give billing questions only. They do not give medical advice and do not tell you whether to get a procedure.