Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$1,510.30
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.
$3,206.00
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.
$559.54 with Passport by Molina vs $2,404.50 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 | $559.54 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $630.28 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $643.14 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $655.78 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $655.78 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $655.78 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $656.01 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $662.44 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $675.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $675.45 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $682.01 | ↓ -55% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $688.57 | ↓ -54% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $1,311.56 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,476.84 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,538.88 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $1,738.86 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $1,738.86 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Pathway | $1,821.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,834.14 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,834.14 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,881.78 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,881.78 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,881.78 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HMO PPO | $2,152.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,167.62 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,404.50 | ↑ +59% |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $956.79 | $582.17 – $2,167.62 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $930.37 | $532.49 – $1,756.30 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $796.10 | $318.59 – $2,030.21 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $462.90 | $192.46 – $992.81 |