Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at Paintsville ARH Hospital

625 James S Trimble Blvd, Paintsville, KY · Arh · · NPI 1437813441

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jan 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$802.20

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$1,337.00

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$190.92 with Humana vs $1,168.94 with Anthem PPO — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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
Humana Medicaid $190.92 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Medicaid $190.92 ↓ -76%
Aetna Better Health Medicaid $190.92 ↓ -76%
Passport Molina Medicaid $190.92 ↓ -76%
Anthem Medicaid $190.92 ↓ -76%
Optum CCN Region 1 Veterans Affairs Plan $224.83 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Medicare $224.83 ↓ -72%
Anthem Medicare Advantage $224.83 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $224.83 ↓ -72%
Humana Medicare $224.83 ↓ -72%
Optum CCN Region 2 Veterans Affairs Plan $224.83 ↓ -72%
WellCare of Kentucky Medicare $224.83 ↓ -72%
WellCare of Kentucky Medicaid $247.31 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare HMO Commercial $703.26 ↓ -12%
United Healthcare PPO Commercial $703.26 ↓ -12%
UMR Commercial $703.26 ↓ -12%
Aetna POS Commercial $1,002.75 ↑ +25%
Aetna PPO Commercial $1,002.75 ↑ +25%
Anthem HMO Commercial $1,110.51 ↑ +38%
Anthem PPO Commercial $1,168.94 ↑ +46%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at other Kentucky hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea Berea $478.68 $273.97 – $903.63
Lourdes Hospital Paducah $606.00 not published
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling Mt. Sterling $380.41 $217.26 – $944.58
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London London $389.67 $155.94 – $993.72
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East Lexington $382.00 $232.43 – $865.41
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital Lexington $488.99 $243.83 – $944.58
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown $421.32 $175.17 – $903.63
Whitesburg ARH Hospital Whitesburg $778.80 $189.63 – $189.63

All Kentucky hospitals for this procedure →