Colonoscopy (with biopsy) at Whitesburg ARH Hospital

240 Hospital Road, Whitesburg, KY · Arh · · NPI 1194723726

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

$847.20

Cash price

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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.

$1,412.00

Gross charge

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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.

$172.05 with CareSoure Kentucky vs $338.07 with Aetna Better Health — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
CareSoure Kentucky Commercial $172.05 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $172.05 ↓ -80%
WellCare of Kentucky Medicare $172.05 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Medicare $172.05 ↓ -80%
Optum CCN Region 1 Veterans Affairs Plan $172.05 ↓ -80%
Optum CCN Region 2 Veterans Affairs Plan $172.05 ↓ -80%
WellCare of Kentucky Medicaid $191.77 ↓ -77%
Aetna Better Health Medicaid $338.07 ↓ -60%

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Colonoscopy (with biopsy) at other Kentucky hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Berea Berea $1,334.33 $763.70 – $2,518.88
Marcum Wallace Hospital Irvine $4,714.98 not published
Lourdes Hospital Paducah $7,162.80 $1,189.55 – $1,213.34
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling Mt. Sterling $1,315.30 $751.18 – $3,265.99
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London London $1,143.31 $457.54 – $2,915.64
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East Lexington $1,433.58 $872.27 – $3,247.79
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Hospital Lexington $1,681.30 $838.36 – $3,247.79
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown $1,631.37 $678.26 – $3,498.95

All Kentucky hospitals for this procedure →