Price Transparency
Forks Community Hospital is dedicated to making our pricing available so that you can make more informed decisions about your healthcare costs.
Better Understand Your Health Care Costs
Forks Community Hospital 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.
Forks Community Hospital's Standard Charges
To improve price transparency, all U.S. hospitals and health systems are required to provide lists of standard hospital charges — also called a chargemaster — so patients can compare prices across hospitals. Here are a few considerations to keep in mind as you view the list of standard charges.
These charges are rarely the price that patients pay. The chargemaster lists the dollar amount set for each service prior to insurance contract/benefit plan discounts or 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 one hospital’s charge for room and board may differ from other hospital’s charge — some hospitals bundle services together into a single charge that others may list separately.
Looking at various hospital charges does not provide any indication of quality of service and outcomes.
Patient Price Estimator
Forks Community Hospital’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 call the number in the Contact Us section.
Pricing 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) code used by insurance companies. The lists are in a spreadsheet format.
PLEASE NOTE: The price lists below show standard charges as well as contract negotiated rates with individual insurance providers. They may be useful for comparing pricing with other hospitals but they may not indicate actual costs to patients.
This list shows preliminary pricing for thousands of different services and medical procedures performed at Forks Community Hospital.
This list shows pricing by types of patient groups, referred to as MS-DRGs (Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups).
This list shows Forks Community Hospital pricing for the most common 300 medical services. It includes gross charges, discounted cash prices, and payer-specific negotiated charges.
This list shows Forks Community Hospital’s unavailable shoppable services.
Please Contact Us
Please contact Forks Community Hospital Price Estimation Team at 360-374-4391 for more information about Forks Community Hospital pricing. Our agents are happy to assist you in understanding your costs for a medical procedure or visit.
