Transparency in Healthcare

Florida law requires that an ambulatory surgery center post on its website a consumer-friendly list of standard charges for at least 300 shoppable health care services, or if a facility provides fewer than 300 distinct shoppable health care services the standard charges for each service it provides. A copy of this facility’s standard charges for shoppable services is linked below.

Fort Myers Surgery Center Shoppable Services

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) launched Florida Health Price Finder, a new health care transparency tool for consumers.  The service bundles are not personalized and actual costs are based on services received.  The new website allows consumers and caregivers to look up the average amounts paid by Florida insurance plans for a specific service, giving them a better estimate of their total out-of-pocket expenses. The average amounts paid by insurance plans are based on billions of lines of claims data from three Florida health plans.  Claims data from additional health plans are expected to be added to the database in 2018.

• The website lists the services as “care bundles”.  A care bundle includes the steps and procedures that are part of a typical treatment plan for that specific care bundle.  For example, the care bundle for Knee Replacement includes an office visit with a specialist, surgery, outpatient physical therapy/rehabilitation and follow-up visits.  Service bundle information is a non-personalized estimate of costs that may be incurred by the patient for anticipated services. Actual costs will be based on services actually provided.
• Since 2007, Floridians have been able to use FloridaHealthFinder.gov to look up undiscounted hospital charges, however, this is rarely the amount that individuals or insurance companies are expected to pay. Now, with this new tool, and in conjunction with working with their respective insurance plans, Floridians have the opportunity to get a much better estimate of out-of-pocket costs for specific services.

Patient Complaint or Grievance

To report a complaint or grievance, you can contact the facility Administrator by phone at 239-887-3608 or by mail at:
Fort Myers Surgery Center
13051 University Drive Ft. Myers, Florida 33907