Special teletx port plan at RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER
2316 E Meyer Blvd, Kansas City, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1134187842
$19,762.84
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.
$19,762.84
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.
$58.77 with Multiplan vs $19,762.84 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 | $58.77 | ↓ -100% |
| CorVel Corporation | KSWC | $69.79 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | WCOMPKansas | $71.62 | ↓ -100% |
| OHA Network | KansasWCOMP | $72.73 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | Blue-Care(HMO) | $89.81 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | Preferred-CareBlue(PPO) | $89.81 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | BlueAccess | $89.81 | ↓ -100% |
| United | KSMGMCD | $201.24 | ↓ -99% |
| HealthyBlue | MGMCD | $205.26 | ↓ -99% |
| Sunflower State Health Plan | MCD | $207.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $209.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Unicare | MGMCD | $209.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $209.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Home State Health Plan | MCD | $243.50 | ↓ -99% |
| United | MOMGMCD | $291.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $300.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | SureFit/LocalPlus | $409.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $488.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Comm | $609.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem MissouriCare | MissouriCareMGMCD | $2,569.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Ambetter | Commercial-Exchange | $3,675.89 | ↓ -81% |
| Oscar | HIX | $3,754.94 | ↓ -81% |
| WPPA ProviDrs Care Network | UnifiedHealthPlan | $3,952.57 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetworkSelect | $4,743.08 | ↓ -76% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,960.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Universal Healthcare | MCR | $6,916.99 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $7,312.25 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Participating | $7,312.25 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetwork | $7,707.51 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | PC | $7,707.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | FHMedicalRental | $7,944.66 | ↓ -60% |
| Coventry | WCOMP | $7,944.66 | ↓ -60% |
| Coventry KC MO | WCOMP | $8,102.76 | ↓ -59% |
| College Park Family Care Center | COMM | $8,498.02 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $8,893.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MCD | $9,486.16 | ↓ -52% |
| Emerging Therapy Solutions | MGMCR | $9,881.42 | ↓ -50% |
| OHA Network | MissouriWCOMP | $9,881.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna LifeSource | COMM | $9,881.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NATIONALNAP | $10,079.05 | ↓ -49% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $10,474.31 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | COMM | $11,857.70 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | MCRHMO | $12,845.85 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | MCD | $12,845.85 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana National Transplant Network | PPO | $12,845.85 | ↓ -35% |
| CorVel Corporation | MOWC | $12,845.85 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplimentaryNetwork | $14,624.50 | ↓ -26% |
| TriWest Health Alliance | TRICARE | $14,822.13 | ↓ -25% |
| FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, Inc | WORKERSCOMP | $14,822.13 | ↓ -25% |
| CCO, Inc. | WORKERSCOMPPPO | $15,810.27 | ↓ -20% |
| Evernorth Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $15,810.27 | ↓ -20% |
| CCO, Inc. | COMM | $15,810.27 | ↓ -20% |
| Optum Health | COMM | $17,588.93 | ↓ -11% |
| Optum Transplant | COMM | $18,181.81 | ↓ -8% |
| Optum Health | MCD | $19,762.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Humana | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Local | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | ASO | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | POS | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | EPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | National | not published by hospital | — |
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Special teletx port plan at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| RESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER | Kansas City | not published | $58.77 – $409.91 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | $646.25 | $43.39 – $450.04 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $646.25 | $43.39 – $450.04 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | $1,046.65 | $49.82 – $450.04 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $646.25 | $43.39 – $137.78 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $646.25 | $43.39 – $450.04 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $646.25 | $43.39 – $450.04 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | $709.29 | $71.02 – $675.06 |