Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
12303 Depaul Drive, Bridgeton, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1598835308
$6,600.00
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.
$12,000.00
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.
$238.34 with BCBS vs $4,306.00 with Cigna — 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 | $238.34 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice PPO | $244.91 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $246.08 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $265.41 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Carelink Other Commercial Plan | $1,444.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthlink | Employers Choice All Commercial Plans | $1,628.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,955.88 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Gold Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,975.44 | ↓ -70% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,984.82 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,985.22 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,989.13 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Advantra Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,024.33 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | NBD Other Commercial Plan | $2,131.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $2,167.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $2,347.05 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,414.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $2,709.00 | ↓ -59% |
| UnitedHealthCare | St. Louis University Employee | $2,727.00 | ↓ -59% |
| UnitedHealthCare | All Commercial Plans | $3,018.00 | ↓ -54% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $3,532.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | OAP Other Commercial Plan | $4,306.00 | ↓ -35% |
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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) 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 | $6,600.00 | $238.34 – $4,306.00 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | $1,768.25 | $273.67 – $3,241.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $6,600.00 | $238.34 – $4,306.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $6,600.00 | $238.34 – $4,306.00 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $6,600.00 | $238.34 – $4,306.00 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | $325.10 | $1,945.12 – $3,520.58 |
| Mercy Hospital Aurora | Aurora | $3,803.33 | $297.00 – $3,845.46 |
| Mercy Hospital Lincoln | Troy | $4,408.17 | $2,330.58 – $2,497.05 |