Crystal identification light microscopy at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital:
2333 Biddie Avenue, Wyandotte, MI · Henry Ford Health · · NPI 1992725352
$24.48
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.
$66.00
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.
$3.33 with United Healthcare vs $34.79 with Cofinity — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | All Products-Midlevel | $3.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Meridian | Medicaid HMO | $3.83 | ↓ -84% |
| McLaren | Medicaid HMO | $3.83 | ↓ -84% |
| HAP | HAP Caresource Medicaid | $3.83 | ↓ -84% |
| Priority Health | Medicaid HMO | $3.83 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | All Products-Prof | $3.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna Better Health | Medicaid HMO | $3.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Medicaid HMO | $4.14 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana Military | Tricare | $5.98 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross | BCBSM GM Connected Care | $6.08 | ↓ -75% |
| BCN | HMO | $6.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross | BCBSM Commercial | $6.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross | BCN Commercial | $6.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Pace SE MI | Medicare Advantage | $6.96 | ↓ -72% |
| Trinity Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| WellCare | Wellcare Meridian Dual Align (HMO D-SNP) | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| WellCare | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | VACCN | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross | BCN Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross | Medicare Plus Blue | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Priority Health | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Priority Health | Dual Premier_HIDE-SNP | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| HAP | HAP Dual Products | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Dual MI Coordinated Health | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| McLaren | Medicare Advantage | $7.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage | $7.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Dual Products | $8.06 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Commercial | $8.80 | ↓ -64% |
| HAP | Henry Ford Select -HPN commercial | $8.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Meridian | Ambetter From Meridian | $9.90 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Baseline Benefit Plan | $10.56 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid-Behavioral Health-Child-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| McLaren | Medicaid HMO-Adult-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| McLaren | Medicaid HMO-Adult-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| Meridian | Medicaid HMO-Child-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| Meridian | Medicaid HMO-Child-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| Meridian | Medicaid HMO-Adult-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| McLaren | Medicaid HMO-Child-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| HAP | HAP Caresource Medicaid-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| Meridian | Medicaid HMO-Adult-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| HAP | HAP Caresource Medicaid-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid-Behavioral Health-Adult-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid-Behavioral Health-Child-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid-Behavioral Health-Adult-NONFAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| McLaren | Medicaid HMO-Child-FAC | $11.29 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna Better Health | Medicaid HMO-Child-FAC | $11.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna Better Health | Medicaid HMO-Child-NONFAC | $11.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna Better Health | Medicaid HMO-Adult-FAC | $11.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna Better Health | Medicaid HMO-Adult-NONFAC | $11.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | Medicaid HMO-Child-NONFAC | $11.74 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina | Medicaid HMO-Adult-FAC | $11.74 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina | Medicaid HMO-Child-FAC | $11.74 | ↓ -52% |
| Priority Health | Medicaid HMO-Adult-NONFAC | $11.85 | ↓ -52% |
| Priority Health | Medicaid HMO-Adult-FAC | $11.85 | ↓ -52% |
| Priority Health | Medicaid HMO-Child-FAC | $11.85 | ↓ -52% |
| Priority Health | Medicaid HMO-Child-NONFAC | $11.85 | ↓ -52% |
| Nomi | All Products | $11.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | Medicaid HMO-Adult-NONFAC | $12.68 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $12.79 | ↓ -48% |
| ScriptGuideRX | All Products | $14.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage-NP-FAC | $14.89 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage-NP-NONFAC | $14.89 | ↓ -39% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage-NonPhysician-FAC | $15.08 | ↓ -38% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage HMO/PPO-NonPhysician-NONFAC | $15.08 | ↓ -38% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage HMO/PPO-NonPhysician-FAC | $15.08 | ↓ -38% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage-NonPhysician-NONFAC | $15.08 | ↓ -38% |
| HAP | HAP HMO_AHL_Fully Insured | $15.62 | ↓ -36% |
| Cofinity | All Products | $15.70 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana Military | Tricare-NonPhysician-FAC | $15.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana Military | Tricare-Physician-FAC | $15.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Pace SE MI | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $16.85 | ↓ -31% |
| Pace SE MI | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $16.85 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare-Behavioral Health-NONFAC | $17.34 | ↓ -29% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Dual Products-FAC | $17.39 | ↓ -29% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Dual Products-NONFAC | $17.39 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage-Physician-FAC | $17.51 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage-Physician-NONFAC | $17.51 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage-Physician-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage-Physician-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| McLaren | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| McLaren | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Meridian | Ambetter From Meridian-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Meridian | Ambetter From Meridian-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| HAP | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| HAP | HAP Dual Products-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| HAP | HAP Dual Products-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Dual Product-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Dual Product-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| WellCare | Wellcare Meridian Dual Align (HMO D-SNP)-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| WellCare | Wellcare Meridian Dual Align (HMO D-SNP)-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | Medicare Plus Blue-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Priority Health | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Priority Health | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | Medicare Plus Blue-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Trinity Health Plan | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Trinity Health Plan | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | BCN Medicare Advantage -NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | BCN Medicare Advantage -FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare-Behavioral Health-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| WellCare | Medicare Advantage-FAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| WellCare | Medicare Advantage-NONFAC | $17.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerihealth Caritas | Dual Products | $19.60 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | All Products-NONFAC | $20.45 | ↓ -16% |
| HAP | Self-Funded | $22.69 | ↓ -7% |
| Vitalcore | All Products-FAC | $23.06 | ↓ -6% |
| Vitalcore | All Products | $24.50 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross | GM Connected Care | $25.41 | ↑ +4% |
| Priority Health | Commercial | $25.78 | ↑ +5% |
| Priority Health | All Products | $26.59 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Cross | BCN Commercial-FAC | $28.23 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Cross | BCN Commercial-NONFAC | $28.23 | ↑ +15% |
| Priority Health | Priority Cigna | $29.25 | ↑ +19% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $32.83 | ↑ +34% |
| HAP | HAP HMO_AHL_Fully-Insured | $33.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Cofinity | Commercial | $34.79 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial-Behavioral Health-MD | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial-Behavioral Health-RN | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Erickson Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Carelon Behavioral Health | Behavioral Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Detroit Wayne Integrated Health | Medicaid HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial-Behavioral Health-MA | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial-Behavioral Health-PhD | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other Michigan hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Corewell Health Big Rapids | Big Rapids | $104.00 | $6.60 – $13.19 |
| Corewell Health Gerber | Fremont | $104.00 | $6.96 – $6.96 |
| Corewell Health Lakeland Watervliet | Watervliet | $32.00 | $7.33 – $11.00 |
| Corewell Health Lakeland St. Joseph | St Joseph | $32.00 | $7.33 – $22.17 |
| Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital | Grand Rapids | $104.00 | $6.96 – $50.78 |
| Corewell Health Blodgett Hospital | East Grand Rapids | $104.00 | $6.96 – $50.78 |
| Corewell Health Reed City | Po Box 75 | $104.00 | $6.96 – $6.96 |
| Corewell Health Greenville | Greenville | $104.00 | $6.96 – $13.19 |