Incision of tongue fold at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
4305 NEW SHEPHERDSVILLE RD, Bardstown, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1871588772
$1,543.54
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.
$3,638.00
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.
$641.75 with Humana vs $3,310.58 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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| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $641.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $654.84 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicaid|Community Plan | $667.94 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $687.59 | ↓ -55% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $707.23 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $792.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,418.44 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,418.44 | ↓ -8% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $1,418.44 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,446.81 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.99 | ↓ -5% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,489.36 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $2,219.18 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $2,219.18 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,655.74 | ↑ +72% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,655.74 | ↑ +72% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,728.50 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,801.26 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,801.26 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,801.26 | ↑ +81% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $2,836.88 | ↑ +84% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,310.58 | ↑ +114% |
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Incision of tongue fold at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $1,333.26 | $761.44 – $3,310.58 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $1,298.17 | $519.51 – $3,310.58 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $1,461.30 | $889.13 – $3,310.58 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | not published | $1,455.84 – $1,455.84 |