Injection for shoulder arthrogram or enhanced ct/mri shoulder arthography (both sides) at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$261.46
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.
$555.00
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.
$130.37 with Passport by Molina vs $1,538.38 with Humana — 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 | $130.37 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $146.86 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $149.85 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $152.85 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $154.35 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $157.35 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $266.40 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $349.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $349.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $349.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $349.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $349.65 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $416.25 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $505.05 | ↑ +93% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,538.38 | ↑ +488% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Commercial|Options | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection for shoulder arthrogram or enhanced ct/mri shoulder arthography (both sides) at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $222.93 | $135.65 – $505.05 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $171.62 | $98.23 – $323.96 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $89.79 | $51.28 – $222.95 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $312.95 | $125.24 – $798.07 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $566.42 | $235.50 – $1,214.85 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | $325.91 | not published |