X-ray thoracic spine 2 views at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital
1 Saint Joseph Drive, Lexington, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1437150984
$333.53
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.
$708.00
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.
$65.18 with Humana vs $644.28 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 | Commercial|All Plans | $65.18 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $104.48 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $104.48 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $104.48 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $107.61 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $108.66 | ↓ -67% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $109.70 | ↓ -67% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $166.31 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $187.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $191.16 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $194.99 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $196.90 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $200.72 | ↓ -40% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $208.96 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $438.96 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $446.04 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $446.04 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $446.04 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $446.04 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $446.04 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $516.84 | ↑ +55% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $644.28 | ↑ +93% |
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X-ray thoracic spine 2 views at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $284.39 | $65.18 – $644.28 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $170.17 | $97.40 – $321.23 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $212.93 | $121.61 – $528.71 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $253.71 | $65.18 – $647.01 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $341.13 | $65.18 – $731.64 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | $646.65 | $98.09 – $98.09 |