Bronchoscopy/needle bx each 31629 at SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
12303 Depaul Drive, Bridgeton, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1598835308
$2,009.70
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.
$3,654.00
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.
$219.65 with BCBS vs $4,553.00 with UnitedHealthCare — 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 | Anthem Pathway Exchange | $219.65 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice PPO | $225.71 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $226.78 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $244.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthlink | Employers Choice All Commercial Plans | $1,628.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Carelink Other Commercial Plan | $1,944.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $2,167.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | OAP Other Commercial Plan | $2,680.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $2,709.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | NBD Other Commercial Plan | $2,835.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,213.00 | ↑ +60% |
| UnitedHealthCare | St. Louis University Employee | $3,379.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,734.37 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Gold Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,771.71 | ↑ +88% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,789.63 | ↑ +89% |
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,790.38 | ↑ +89% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,797.85 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Advantra Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,865.07 | ↑ +92% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $3,886.00 | ↑ +93% |
| UnitedHealthCare | All Commercial Plans | $4,114.00 | ↑ +105% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $4,553.00 | ↑ +127% |
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Bronchoscopy/needle bx each 31629 at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | $2,009.70 | $219.65 – $3,886.00 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | $2,262.15 | $252.21 – $3,886.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $2,009.70 | $219.65 – $3,886.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $2,009.70 | $219.65 – $3,886.00 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $2,009.70 | $219.65 – $3,886.00 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $26,277.31 | $160.23 – $45,352.90 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $24,256.73 | $161.02 – $13,373.78 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Fenton | Fenton | $2,009.70 | $219.65 – $3,886.00 |