Bundle his recording at RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER
2316 E Meyer Blvd, Kansas City, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1134187842
$25,856.57
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.
$25,856.57
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.
$347.90 with BCBS vs $35,496.00 with Oscar — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | BlueAccess | $347.90 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | Preferred-CareBlue(PPO) | $347.90 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS | Blue-Care(HMO) | $347.90 | ↓ -99% |
| United | KSMGMCD | $2,419.31 | ↓ -91% |
| HealthyBlue | MGMCD | $2,467.70 | ↓ -90% |
| Sunflower State Health Plan | MCD | $2,491.89 | ↓ -90% |
| Unicare | MGMCD | $2,516.08 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $2,516.08 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $2,516.08 | ↓ -90% |
| Home State Health Plan | MCD | $2,927.37 | ↓ -89% |
| Anthem MissouriCare | MissouriCareMGMCD | $3,361.35 | ↓ -87% |
| United | MOMGMCD | $3,508.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | HMO | $5,455.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | ASO | $5,455.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | EPO | $5,455.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $5,688.45 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetworkSelect | $6,205.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | $6,477.00 | ↓ -75% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $6,490.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | POS | $6,851.99 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | PPO | $6,851.99 | ↓ -74% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCD | $7,950.00 | ↓ -69% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCR | $7,950.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Universal Healthcare | MCR | $8,300.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | $8,707.00 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $9,566.93 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Participating | $9,566.93 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | PC | $10,084.06 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetwork | $10,084.06 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | FHMedicalRental | $10,394.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Coventry | WCOMP | $10,394.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Coventry KC MO | WCOMP | $10,601.19 | ↓ -59% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $11,635.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Local | $12,152.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCD | $12,411.15 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna LifeSource | COMM | $12,928.28 | ↓ -50% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MGMCR | $12,928.28 | ↓ -50% |
| OHA Network | MissouriWCOMP | $12,928.28 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NATIONALNAP | $13,186.85 | ↓ -49% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $13,703.98 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | National | $14,345.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | COMM | $15,513.94 | ↓ -40% |
| Ambetter | Commercial-Exchange | $16,143.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | MCD | $16,806.77 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | PPO | $16,806.77 | ↓ -35% |
| CorVel Corporation | MOWC | $16,806.77 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | MCRHMO | $16,806.77 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplimentaryNetwork | $19,133.86 | ↓ -26% |
| FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, Inc | WORKERSCOMP | $19,392.43 | ↓ -25% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRICARE | $19,392.43 | ↓ -25% |
| CCO, Inc. | WORKERSCOMPPPO | $20,685.26 | ↓ -20% |
| Evernorth Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $20,685.26 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | WCOMPMissouri | $20,685.26 | ↓ -20% |
| CCO, Inc. | COMM | $20,685.26 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | SureFit/LocalPlus | $22,968.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Optum Health | COMM | $23,012.35 | ↓ -11% |
| Optum Transplant | COMM | $23,788.04 | ↓ -8% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $25,856.00 | ↓ -0% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $25,856.57 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $27,391.00 | ↑ +6% |
| WPPA ProviDrs Care Network | UnifiedHealthPlan | $30,000.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Comm | $34,239.00 | ↑ +32% |
| Oscar | HIX | $35,496.00 | ↑ +37% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| RESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER | Kansas City | not published | $347.90 – $3,508.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | $3,321.45 | $89.61 – $9,374.71 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $3,321.45 | $89.61 – $9,374.71 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | $2,805.00 | $102.89 – $9,374.71 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $3,321.45 | $89.61 – $8,427.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $3,321.45 | $89.61 – $9,374.71 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $3,321.45 | $89.61 – $9,374.71 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $6,964.75 | $66.00 – $14,780.25 |