Leg Vein Ultrasound (DVT study, both legs) at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$1,040.48
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.
$2,066.00
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.
$237.49 with BCBS - Anthem vs $1,708.98 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $237.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $237.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $237.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $244.61 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $246.99 | ↓ -76% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $249.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $441.15 | ↓ -58% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $474.98 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $496.92 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $507.06 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $517.21 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $522.28 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $532.42 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,164.36 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,183.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,183.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,183.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,183.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,183.14 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,280.92 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,370.94 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $1,508.18 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $1,508.18 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,708.98 | ↑ +64% |
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Leg Vein Ultrasound (DVT study, both legs) at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $754.35 | $458.99 – $1,708.98 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $658.49 | $376.88 – $1,243.06 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $960.55 | $548.58 – $2,385.11 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $957.75 | $383.28 – $2,442.44 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $840.93 | $349.63 – $1,803.62 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | $2,975.02 | $223.88 – $223.88 |