Ventilator initial day at CHI St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs
300 Werner Street, Hot Springs, AR · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1619915949
$1,631.00
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,631.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$138.00 with United vs $1,304.80 with Multiplan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $138.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $138.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|AHN | $140.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|NBR | $148.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $154.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Centene | Commercial|QualChoice | $157.52 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - AR | Commercial|All Other Plans | $528.45 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - AR | Commercial|TrueBlue Exchange | $528.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $628.53 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - AR | Medicare|PFFS | $628.53 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Medicare|Healthspring | $647.39 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - AR | Medicare|HMO PPO | $647.39 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $647.39 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $659.96 | ↓ -60% |
| Centene | Medicare|Allwell | $659.96 | ↓ -60% |
| Centene | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $936.06 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,304.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,304.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,304.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,304.80 | ↓ -20% |
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Ventilator initial day at other Arkansas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospital Berryville | Berryville | $1,093.95 | $81.35 – $723.98 |
| Mercy Hospital Boonville | Booneville | $910.00 | $81.35 – $723.98 |
| Mercy Hospital Ozark | River Ozark | $910.00 | $81.35 – $723.98 |
| Mercy Hospital Paris | Academy Paris | $910.00 | $81.35 – $723.98 |
| Mercy Hospital Waldron | Waldron | $910.00 | $81.35 – $723.98 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Fort Smith | Fort Smith | $1,085.50 | $81.35 – $1,104.55 |
| CHI St. Vincent Morrilton | Morrilton | $422.81 | $148.00 – $488.04 |
| CHI St. Vincent North | Sherwood | $421.98 | $148.00 – $528.45 |