Welcome to Franciscan Children’s list of standard charges and shoppable services. The information provided via the links below is not intended to provide all the information needed to estimate the cost of care. There may be other costs in providing your care (e.g., the cost of physician services), which are not included in these links. This information also may not reflect the out-of-pocket amounts patients will be required to pay for services provided by Franciscan Children’s. For services covered under a health plan, the patient/family should contact their health plan for individual benefit-specific information about what services are covered and the applicable patient financial responsibility.
If you’d like an estimate for the cost of your care, or have additional questions, please request an estimate by sending a message to RegGroup@franciscanchildrens.org, or call the Patient Accounting department at 617-779-1202 Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.. Please expect a response to your inquiry in 2-3 business days.
You may download a list of inpatient and outpatient hospital services performed at Franciscan Children’s. The list includes the Hospital’s gross standard charges for these services, payer-specific negotiated charges, by payer and by plan offered (where applicable for inpatient and outpatient services), de-identified minimum and maximum negotiated charges, and discounted cash prices. In addition, utilizing health plan claims payment data from the twelve (12) month period ending on December 31, 2025, when required, we have included the tenth (10th) percentile, median and 90th percentile allowed amount for the services included in the files below*.
The gross charges for all services and items are those charges in effect as of October 1, 2025, and the payer-specific negotiated charges are those in effect as of January 1, 2026.
*For allowed amounts that are based on a fee schedule and are reflected as dollar amounts, and for allowed amounts that are based on percentage of charges and are reflected as dollar amounts, the 10th percentile, median and 90th percentile allowed amounts are not required.
You may search a list of 300 shoppable services that may be scheduled in advance. This list includes routine and/or ancillary services associated with the shoppable service. These 300 shoppable services represent 70 services identified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as 230 services most commonly provided by the Hospital. Included in the shoppable services are the average gross charge, the average payer-specific negotiated charges for the services, the average de-identified minimum and maximum negotiated charges and the average discounted cash price.
Franciscan Children’s is a specialty hospital that is primarily Inpatient. The list does not include 300 outpatient services, but it is comprehensive of what is offered.
The average gross charges for all services and items are those charges in effect as of October 1, 2025. The average payer-specific negotiated charges represent rates in effect as of January 1, 2026.