The Agency for Health Care Administration’s (AHCA’s) continues to place an emphasis on health care transparency for Florida’s consumers. AHCA offers a website – FloridaHealthPriceFinder to help patients find data on health care costs for national, state, and local prices.
Additionally, Amelia Island Surgery Center recognizes that the financial aspect of your care can be overwhelming. Our commitment to you is to be as transparent as possible and to provide you with the information to help you make decisions about your health care. Once you determine with your physician the services you require, we can help you determine the price estimate of the service for those patients with or without insurance.
For the patients with insurance, you should first contact your insurance company to understand your plan benefits for the care/service you anticipate receiving from Amelia Island Surgery Center. You should confirm with your insurance company if the physician and the facility are both covered by your insurance plan. This is very important to know to help determine your total financial responsibility for the service you need.
If for any reason the physician or facility is not a participating provider with your insurance, your financial responsibility may increase.
“Pricing transparency” is the term used to describe initiatives in the health care industry to provide meaningful pricing information to consumers. The health care industry is often complex and difficult for consumers to navigate. Price transparency is a means of providing consumers price information on common services. Our ASC is committed to presenting pricing information in a way that will be easy for the consumer to access and understand, as well as to providing other useful information about financial assistance available, definitions of key terminology and key financial policies. Using the AHCA website, FloridaHealthPriceFinder, a consumer can determine national, state, and local pricing for a variety of health care services.
Services may be provided in this health care facility by the facility as well as other health care providers who may separately bill the patient and who may or may not participate with the same health insurers or health maintenance organizations as the facility.
Patients and prospective patients may request from this facility and other health care providers a more personalized estimate of charges and other information. Patients and prospective patients should contact each health care practitioner who will provide services in the ASC to determine the health insurers and health maintenance organizations with which the health care practitioner participates as a network provider or preferred provider.
Additional information regarding health care quality measures and statistics provided by the State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration can be found at FloridaHealthFinder.gov.
For questions about estimated payments due on the day of service please contact the surgery center Monday through Friday 9:00am to 3:00pm at 904-775-5280.
