Biliary endoscopy thru skin at Wellstar Douglas Hospital
8954 Hospital Drive, Douglasville, GA · Wellstar Health System · · NPI 1649247974
$3,376.62
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.
$8,658.00
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.
$1,937.00 with Alliant Health Plan vs $24,747.48 with Bcbs — 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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| Alliant Health Plan | Ppo | $1,937.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Hmo | $4,220.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Hmo/Pos/Ppo | $5,809.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6,516.42 | ↑ +93% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6,646.75 | ↑ +97% |
| Cigna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6,842.24 | ↑ +103% |
| Caresource | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6,972.57 | ↑ +106% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $8,448.00 | ↑ +150% |
| Ambetter Health | Select Exchange | $11,468.89 | ↑ +240% |
| Oscar Healthplan | Exchange | $12,055.37 | ↑ +257% |
| Caresource | Exchange | $12,772.18 | ↑ +278% |
| Bcbs | Shbp Other Commercial Plan | $19,533.17 | ↑ +478% |
| Bcbs | Hmo/Pos | $24,747.48 | ↑ +633% |
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Biliary endoscopy thru skin at other Georgia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Wellstar Cobb Hospital | Austell | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $12,164.76 |
| Wellstar Kennestone Hospital | Marietta | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $12,164.76 |
| Wellstar MCG Health | Augusta | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $11,119.33 |
| Wellstar North Fulton Hospital | Roswell | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $12,164.76 |
| Wellstar Paulding Hospital | Hiram | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $12,164.76 |
| Wellstar Roosevelt Long Term Acute Care at Warm Springs | P O Box 280 | $3,376.62 | not published |
| Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital | Griffin | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $12,727.06 |
| Wellstar Sylvan Grove Hospital | Jackson | $3,376.62 | $1,937.00 – $9,765.44 |