Brain image 4+ views at Corewell Health Trenton
5450 Fort Street, Trenton, MI · Corewell Health · · NPI 1740230648
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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.
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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.
$311.86 with Bcbs vs $730.69 with Longevity 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.
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 | All Commercial Plans | $311.86 | — |
| Bcbs | Exchange | $311.86 | — |
| Priority Health | Cigna Other Commercial Plan | $368.06 | — |
| Priority Health | Hmo/Ppo | $368.06 | — |
| Priority Health | Exchange | $368.06 | — |
| Amerihealth | Three Rivers Medicare Managed Care Plan | $503.36 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $541.25 | — |
| Molina Healthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $550.99 | — |
| Zing Healthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $589.96 | — |
| Align Senior Care | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $703.63 | — |
| Longevity Health | Plan Of Michigan Medicare Managed Care Plan | $730.69 | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Henry Ford Hospital | Detroit MI 48202 | 19401 Hubbard Dr. | $746.61 | $15.76 – $946.04 |
| Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital | West Bloomfield | $746.61 | $15.76 – $1,244.35 |
| Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital: | Wyandotte | $746.61 | $15.76 – $388.21 |
| Henry Ford Macomb Hospital | Clinton Twp | $746.61 | $15.76 – $1,244.35 |
| Corewell Health Big Rapids | Big Rapids | not published | $541.02 – $973.83 |
| Corewell Health Lakeland Watervliet | Watervliet | not published | $546.88 – $820.31 |
| Corewell Health Lakeland St. Joseph | St Joseph | not published | $541.02 – $811.53 |
| Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital | Grand Rapids | not published | $327.60 – $973.83 |