Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at 39-3714515 BMH Oktibbeha County

400 HOSPITAL DRIVE, STARKVILLE, MS · Baptistonline · · NPI 1154310514

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 30, 2026 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$806.40

Cash price

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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.

$1,260.00

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.

$70.00 with HEALTHLINK vs $1,124.43 with MPCN — 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
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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
HEALTHLINK HEALTH LINK $70.00 ↓ -91%
FOXEVERETT FOX EVERETT $70.00 ↓ -91%
UNITED-STUDENT UNITED HEALTHCARE STUDENT $75.00 ↓ -91%
PPOPLUS PPOPLUS $75.00 ↓ -91%
MULTIPLAN MULTIPLAN $75.00 ↓ -91%
MPEEBT MS PUBLIC ENTITY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST $85.00 ↓ -89%
GROUP_PENSION GROUP AND PENSION ADMINISTRATORS $90.00 ↓ -89%
UNITED-INTEGRATED UNITEDHEALTH INTEGRATED $90.00 ↓ -89%
UMR UMR $100.00 ↓ -88%
CIGNA CIGNA $100.00 ↓ -88%
BLUECROSS BLUE CROSS OF MS $100.00 ↓ -88%
AMBETTER AMBETTER INSURANCE EXCHANGE $100.00 ↓ -88%
GOLDEN RULE GOLDEN RULE $100.00 ↓ -88%
UNITED UNITED HEALTHCARE $100.00 ↓ -88%
STATE_OF_MS STATE OF MS BLUE CROSS $100.00 ↓ -88%
AETNA AETNA $100.00 ↓ -88%
HUMANA_MA HUMANA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE $100.00 ↓ -88%
MOLINA_CHIP MOLINA CHIP $100.00 ↓ -88%
MPCN-CHIP MPCN- MAGNOLIA CHIP $100.00 ↓ -88%
TRICARE TRICARE $100.00 ↓ -88%
MSCAN_MAGNOLIA MSCAN MAGNOLIA $100.00 ↓ -88%
MSCAN_MOLINA MSCAN MOLINA $100.00 ↓ -88%
MSCAN_TRUECARE MSCAN TRUECARE $100.00 ↓ -88%
NORTH AMERICA ADMIN NORTH AMERICA ADMINISTRATORS $100.00 ↓ -88%
VA_PCCC VA PATIENT CENTERED COMMUNITY CARE $447.54 ↓ -45%
MEDICARE MEDICARE $471.10 ↓ -42%
MPCN MPCN- COMMERCIAL BUSINESS $1,124.43 ↑ +39%

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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Mississippi hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
64-0682111 BMH DeSoto Southaven $793.20 $476.98 – $1,405.82
64-0772726 BMH North Mississippi Oxford $742.21 $478.87 – $1,396.70
64-0362400 Anderson Regional Main Campus Meridian $417.56 $496.50 – $1,128.42
64-0844470 MBMC Yazoo Yazoo City $728.16 $479.81 – $489.41
62-1519754 BMH Golden Triangle Columbus $831.00 $481.46 – $1,404.26
64-0881013 MBMC Jackson Jackson $699.09 $497.77 – $1,393.76
81-3257997 BMH Calhoun Calhoun City $568.88 $548.30 – $559.27
45-2896080 MBMC Leake Carthage $799.20 $479.81 – $489.41

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