Culture bacteria anaerobic at OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center
1 St Anthony's Way, Alton, IL · Osfhealthcare · · NPI 1710396932
$124.80
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.
$208.00
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.
$8.02 with UnitedHealthCare vs $25.21 with Aetna — 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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| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $8.02 | ↓ -94% |
| UnitedHealthCare | All Payor Other Commercial Plan | $8.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Essence | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.66 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.76 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.85 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $25.21 | ↓ -80% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture bacteria anaerobic at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $38.58 | $3.50 – $21.27 |
| OSF Holy Family Medical Center | Monmouth | $610.40 | not published |
| OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center | Evergreen Park | $372.00 | $9.66 – $17.97 |
| OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center – Urbana | Danville | $228.60 | $9.66 – $9.85 |
| OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center | Rockford | $244.80 | $9.66 – $33.81 |
| OSF St Joseph Medical Center | Bloomington | $244.20 | $9.66 – $9.85 |
| OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center | Ottawa | $362.40 | $9.66 – $9.85 |
| OSF Saint James John W Albrecht Medical Center | Pontiac | $506.40 | $9.66 – $9.85 |