Lung perfusion imaging at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea
305 Estill Street, Berea, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1740488386
$427.59
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.
$887.00
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.
$244.73 with Wellcare vs $807.17 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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| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $244.73 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $248.36 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $248.36 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $248.36 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $253.33 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $255.82 | ↓ -40% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $260.78 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $274.97 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $274.97 | ↓ -36% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $280.47 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $280.47 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $288.72 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $408.02 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $487.85 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $487.85 | ↑ +14% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $496.72 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $612.03 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $612.03 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $682.99 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $682.99 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $682.99 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $807.17 | ↑ +89% |
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Lung perfusion imaging at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $555.59 | $317.30 – $1,379.56 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $244.08 | $97.68 – $622.44 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $469.56 | $285.71 – $1,063.79 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital | Lexington | $550.70 | $274.60 – $1,063.79 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $943.18 | $392.14 – $2,022.93 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | $1,972.46 | $375.10 – $375.10 |