Myelography neck spine at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
2505 Mission Drive, Jefferson City, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1518065523
$938.52
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.
$1,706.40
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.
$141.37 with BCBS vs $1,609.16 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 | $141.37 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $147.58 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $157.54 | ↓ -83% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $780.87 | ↓ -17% |
| Centene Wellcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $785.19 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care - HMO/PPO | $796.96 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $798.53 | ↓ -15% |
| Essence | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $824.45 | ↓ -12% |
| Centurion | All Commercial Plans | $1,099.26 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Systems | All Commercial Plans | $1,334.82 | ↑ +42% |
| 6 Degress Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,413.34 | ↑ +51% |
| UnitedHealthCare | All Commercial Plans | $1,609.16 | ↑ +71% |
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Myelography neck spine 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 | $943.80 | $51.99 – $942.22 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $943.80 | $51.99 – $942.22 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | $1,739.65 | $59.69 – $942.22 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $943.80 | $51.99 – $1,430.36 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $943.80 | $51.99 – $942.22 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $943.80 | $51.99 – $942.22 |
| Mercy Hospital Carthage | Carthage | $1,127.75 | $146.68 – $1,037.21 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $2,119.00 | $58.22 – $5,037.63 |