Brain image 4+ views at RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER
2316 E Meyer Blvd, Kansas City, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1134187842
$11,310.26
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.
$11,310.26
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.
$234.60 with Multiplan vs $11,310.26 with Optum Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplan | WCOMPMissouri | $234.60 | ↓ -98% |
| CorVel Corporation | KSWC | $278.59 | ↓ -98% |
| United | KSMGMCD | $283.02 | ↓ -97% |
| Multiplan | WCOMPKansas | $285.92 | ↓ -97% |
| HealthyBlue | MGMCD | $288.68 | ↓ -97% |
| OHA Network | KansasWCOMP | $290.32 | ↓ -97% |
| Sunflower State Health Plan | MCD | $291.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $294.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Unicare | MGMCD | $294.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $294.34 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Preferred-CareBlue(PPO) | $305.99 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | BlueAccess | $305.99 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Blue-Care(HMO) | $305.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | HMO | $307.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | ASO | $307.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | EPO | $307.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Home State Health Plan | MCD | $342.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | POS | $397.53 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | PPO | $397.53 | ↓ -96% |
| United | MOMGMCD | $410.38 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $434.20 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | SureFit/LocalPlus | $599.63 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $714.75 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Comm | $892.24 | ↓ -92% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $1,101.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Anthem MissouriCare | MissouriCareMGMCD | $1,470.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Ambetter | Commercial-Exchange | $2,103.71 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCR | $2,148.95 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCD | $2,148.95 | ↓ -81% |
| WPPA ProviDrs Care Network | UnifiedHealthPlan | $2,262.05 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetworkSelect | $2,714.46 | ↓ -76% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,838.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Universal Healthcare | MCR | $3,958.59 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,184.80 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Participating | $4,184.80 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | PC | $4,411.00 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetwork | $4,411.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Coventry | WCOMP | $4,546.72 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | FHMedicalRental | $4,546.72 | ↓ -60% |
| Coventry KC MO | WCOMP | $4,637.21 | ↓ -59% |
| College Park Family Care Center | COMM | $4,863.41 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $5,089.62 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCD | $5,428.92 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna LifeSource | COMM | $5,655.13 | ↓ -50% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MGMCR | $5,655.13 | ↓ -50% |
| OHA Network | MissouriWCOMP | $5,655.13 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NATIONALNAP | $5,768.23 | ↓ -49% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $5,994.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | COMM | $6,786.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | MCRHMO | $7,351.67 | ↓ -35% |
| CorVel Corporation | MOWC | $7,351.67 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | MCD | $7,351.67 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | PPO | $7,351.67 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplimentaryNetwork | $8,369.59 | ↓ -26% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRICARE | $8,482.69 | ↓ -25% |
| FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, Inc | WORKERSCOMP | $8,482.69 | ↓ -25% |
| CCO, Inc. | WORKERSCOMPPPO | $9,048.21 | ↓ -20% |
| Evernorth Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $9,048.21 | ↓ -20% |
| CCO, Inc. | COMM | $9,048.21 | ↓ -20% |
| Optum Health | COMM | $10,066.13 | ↓ -11% |
| Optum Transplant | COMM | $10,405.44 | ↓ -8% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $11,310.26 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Local | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | National | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| RESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER | Kansas City | not published | $234.60 – $599.63 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | $616.55 | $179.62 – $652.62 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $616.55 | $179.62 – $652.62 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $616.55 | $179.62 – $978.80 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $616.55 | $179.62 – $652.62 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $616.55 | $179.62 – $652.62 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $999.05 | $314.02 – $2,130.09 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $3,463.85 | $43.00 – $1,732.99 |