Incision of tongue fold at Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center
260 Hospital Drive South, Williamson, KY · Arh · · NPI 1649270257
$1,140.00
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.
$1,900.00
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.
$45.81 with WellCare of Kentucky vs $158.04 with CareSoure Kentucky — 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 of Kentucky | Medicaid | $45.81 | ↓ -96% |
| The Health Plan | Medicaid | $79.53 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $95.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Optum CCN Region 1 | Veterans Affairs Plan | $95.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Optum CCN Region 2 | Veterans Affairs Plan | $95.78 | ↓ -92% |
| WellCare of Kentucky | Medicare | $95.78 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $95.78 | ↓ -92% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare | $95.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna Better Health | Medicaid | $139.97 | ↓ -88% |
| CareSoure Kentucky | Commercial | $158.04 | ↓ -86% |
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Incision of tongue fold at other Kentucky hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | Mt. Sterling | $1,333.26 | $761.44 – $3,310.58 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph London | London | $1,298.17 | $519.51 – $3,310.58 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East | Lexington | $1,461.30 | $889.13 – $3,310.58 |
| CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital | Bardstown | $1,543.54 | $641.75 – $3,310.58 |
| Adventhealth Manchester | Manchester | not published | $1,455.84 – $1,455.84 |