Bronchoscopy/lung bx each 31628 at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
225 FALCON DR, Mt. Sterling, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1679679146
$3,043.26
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.
$8,304.00
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.
$1,698.00 with BCBS - Anthem vs $7,556.64 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 | Commercial|Pathway | $1,698.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,738.03 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $1,909.92 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,929.02 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,948.12 | ↓ -36% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,948.12 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,005.42 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HMO PPO | $2,006.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3,321.60 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $3,466.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $3,466.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,466.62 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,535.95 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,570.62 | ↑ +17% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,639.95 | ↑ +20% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $4,235.04 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $4,235.04 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,563.68 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,563.68 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,563.68 | ↑ +83% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $6,933.24 | ↑ +128% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,556.64 | ↑ +148% |
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Bronchoscopy/lung bx each 31628 at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $4,002.98 | $2,291.08 – $7,556.64 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $2,822.22 | $1,129.41 – $7,197.19 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $3,176.85 | $1,932.96 – $7,197.19 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital | Lexington | $3,983.12 | $1,857.83 – $7,197.19 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $3,523.23 | $1,464.83 – $7,556.64 |