Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$116.36
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.
$247.00
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.
$58.03 with Passport by Molina vs $253.28 with CareSource — 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 | $58.03 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $65.36 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $66.69 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $68.03 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $68.70 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $70.03 | ↓ -40% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $126.64 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $126.64 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $126.64 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $130.44 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $131.71 | ↑ +13% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $132.97 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $153.14 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $155.61 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $155.61 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $155.61 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $155.61 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $155.61 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $180.31 | ↑ +55% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $224.77 | ↑ +93% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $253.28 | ↑ +118% |
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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $99.22 | $60.37 – $224.77 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $138.84 | $79.46 – $262.08 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $113.98 | $65.10 – $283.01 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $54.24 | $21.71 – $138.32 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $114.56 | $47.63 – $245.70 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | not published | $124.84 – $124.84 |