Ear irrigation 69209 at CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
225 FALCON DR, Mt. Sterling, KY · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1679679146
$53.51
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.
$146.00
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.
$30.56 with Wellcare vs $132.86 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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| Wellcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicaid|Better Health | $33.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.92 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.26 | ↓ -36% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.26 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $35.26 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $55.85 | ↑ +4% |
| Wellcare | Medicare|All Plans | $55.85 | ↑ +4% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $55.85 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $56.97 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $57.53 | ↑ +8% |
| Passport by Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $58.64 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $62.78 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options | $74.46 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $74.46 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $97.82 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $97.82 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $97.82 | ↑ +83% |
| CareSource | Commercial|All Plans | $111.70 | ↑ +109% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $132.86 | ↑ +148% |
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Ear irrigation 69209 at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea | Berea | $75.21 | $43.05 – $141.96 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $73.87 | $29.56 – $188.37 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $110.47 | $67.21 – $250.25 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital | Lexington | $138.50 | $64.60 – $250.25 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $61.95 | $25.76 – $132.86 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | $461.34 | $55.35 – $55.35 |