Nm imaging hepatobiliary system w/pharmacologic intervention at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$1,132.96
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.
$2,405.00
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.
$528.84 with Humana vs $2,188.55 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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| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $528.84 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $528.84 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $528.84 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $544.71 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $549.99 | ↓ -51% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $555.28 | ↓ -51% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $564.94 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $636.37 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $649.35 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $662.34 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $668.84 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $681.82 | ↓ -40% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $1,057.68 | ↓ -7% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,208.69 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,515.15 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,515.15 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,515.15 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,515.15 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,515.15 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,539.20 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,803.75 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,188.55 | ↑ +93% |
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Nm imaging hepatobiliary system w/pharmacologic intervention at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $966.03 | $587.79 – $2,188.55 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $1,076.91 | $616.37 – $2,032.94 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $885.42 | $505.67 – $2,198.56 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $665.50 | $266.33 – $1,697.15 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $2,051.83 | $853.08 – $4,400.76 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | $2,498.86 | $509.46 – $509.46 |