Blood Culture Test at Adventhealth Ottawa

1301 S Main Street, Ottawa, KS · AdventHealth · · NPI 1972063758

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$652.72

Cash price

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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.

$652.72

Gross charge

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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.

$4.33 with Unitedhealthcare vs $40.02 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Unitedhealthcare Hmo/Ppo $4.33 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare Managed Care - Hmo/Ppo $10.32 ↓ -98%
Cigna Local Plus Pos $14.96 ↓ -98%
Sunflower State Health Plan Ambetter Exchange $15.79 ↓ -98%
Cigna Hmo $16.09 ↓ -98%
Oscar Individual Plan Hmo $17.54 ↓ -97%
Bcbs Blue Choice Ppo $40.02 ↓ -94%

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Blood Culture Test at other Kansas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Adventhealth Shawnee Mission Shawnee Mission $652.72 $4.33 – $29.93
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg Pittsburg $184.60 $9.18 – $56.91
Wamego Health Center (Wamego Hospital Association) Wamego $136.80 $9.45 – $237.60
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan, Inc Manhattan $74.40 $9.37 – $167.40
Adventhealth South Overland Park Overland Park $652.72 $4.33 – $29.93
Ascension Via Christi Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. Wichita not published $9.37 – $41.74
Ascension Via Christi St. Francis (Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita, Inc.) Wichita not published $9.37 – $41.74
Ascension Via Christi Hospital St. Teresa, Inc. Wichita not published $9.37 – $41.74

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