Colonoscopy (with polyp removal) at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$2,639.48
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.
$5,603.00
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.
$561.65 with Passport by Molina vs $4,202.25 with United — 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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| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $561.65 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $632.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $645.57 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $658.49 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $664.94 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $677.85 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $1,158.42 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,158.42 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,158.42 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,193.17 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,204.76 | ↓ -54% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,216.34 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,482.42 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $1,745.43 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $1,745.43 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,841.07 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,841.07 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,888.89 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,888.89 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,888.89 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Pathway | $2,011.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,175.81 | ↓ -18% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $2,316.84 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HMO PPO | $2,376.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,689.44 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,202.25 | ↑ +59% |
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Colonoscopy (with polyp removal) at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $530.62 | $322.86 – $1,202.11 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $893.73 | $511.52 – $1,687.14 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $881.39 | $503.37 – $2,188.55 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $766.13 | $306.60 – $1,953.77 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $1,093.38 | $454.59 – $2,345.07 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | not published | $1,122.80 – $1,122.80 |