Middle cerebral artery echo at Parkview DeKalb Hospital
1316 E Seventh St, Auburn, IN · Parkview · · NPI 1902897937
$402.00
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.
$804.00
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.
$110.61 with Aetna vs $263.76 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $110.61 | ↓ -72% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $111.72 | ↓ -72% |
| CareSource | Exchange | $116.14 | ↓ -71% |
| Managed Health Services | Exchange | $149.32 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Anthem Exchange | $165.92 | ↓ -59% |
| Signature Care | Employee | $231.00 | ↓ -43% |
| UnitedHealthCare | All Commercial Plans | $237.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Physicians Health Plan | HMO | $243.77 | ↓ -39% |
| Signature Care | Exclusive Elite Other Commercial Plan | $251.08 | ↓ -38% |
| Signature Care | EPO | $251.08 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS | Anthem All Commercial Plans | $263.76 | ↓ -34% |
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Middle cerebral artery echo at other Indiana hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension St. Vincent Evansville (St. Mary's Health, Inc.) | IN 47750|10388 Warrick Wellness Trail Newburgh | $544.20 | $19.75 – $118.29 |
| Ascension St. Vincent Carmel (St. Vincent Carmel Hospital, Inc.) | Carmel | $265.20 | $19.75 – $118.29 |
| Ascension St. Vincent Carmel Ambulatory Surgery Center | Carmel | $265.20 | $17.49 – $118.29 |
| Ascension St. Vincent Naab Surgery Center | Indianapolis | $265.20 | $17.49 – $118.29 |
| Ascension St. Vincent Anderson (St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital, Inc.) | Anderson | $265.20 | $17.49 – $118.29 |
| Baptist Health Floyd | New Albany | $438.00 | $40.79 – $921.00 |
| Parkview Logansport Hospital | Logansport | $138.12 | $110.61 – $251.08 |
| Parkview Wabash Hospital | Wabash | $407.50 | $231.00 – $263.76 |