Glucose body fluid at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

2505 Mission Drive, Jefferson City, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1518065523

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$59.95

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.

$109.00

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.

$3.54 with UnitedHealthCare vs $11.40 with BCBS — 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
UnitedHealthCare All Commercial Plans $3.54 ↓ -94%
UnitedHealthCare Medicare Managed Care Plan $3.91 ↓ -93%
Centene Wellcare Medicare Managed Care Plan $3.93 ↓ -93%
BCBS Anthem Medicare Managed Care - HMO/PPO $3.99 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare Managed Care Plan $4.00 ↓ -93%
Essence Medicare Managed Care Plan $4.13 ↓ -93%
Centurion All Commercial Plans $5.50 ↓ -91%
Health Systems All Commercial Plans $6.68 ↓ -89%
6 Degress Health All Commercial Plans $7.07 ↓ -88%
BCBS Anthem Pathway Exchange $10.23 ↓ -83%
BCBS Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS $10.68 ↓ -82%
BCBS Anthem Blue Access PPO $11.40 ↓ -81%

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Glucose body fluid at other Missouri hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis Lake Saint Louis $35.20 $3.93 – $16.20
SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis Bridgeton $35.20 $3.93 – $16.20
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital Saint Louis $44.00 $3.85 – $8.39
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville Wentzville $35.20 $3.93 – $16.20
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles Saint Charles $35.20 $3.93 – $16.20
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis Richmond Heights $35.20 $3.93 – $16.20
Mercy Hospital Aurora Aurora $76.70 $3.86 – $6.48
Mercy Hospital Lincoln Troy $73.45 $3.48 – $8.84

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