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2316 E Meyer Blvd, Kansas City, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1134187842
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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.
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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.
$154.54 with Cigna vs $707.16 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | SureFit/LocalPlus | $154.54 | — |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $186.24 | — |
| Cigna | Comm | $231.81 | — |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $288.05 | — |
| BCBS | MCRHMO | $301.76 | — |
| Coventry | MedicareAdvantage | $301.76 | — |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $301.76 | — |
| United | CommunityCareNetwork | $304.81 | — |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $304.81 | — |
| Humana | MCRHMO | $304.81 | — |
| Humana | MCRPPO | $304.81 | — |
| Humana | PFFS | $304.81 | — |
| Optum Health | MCR | $304.81 | — |
| Optum Transplants | OONMCR | $304.81 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $304.81 | — |
| United | MGMCR | $310.91 | — |
| Wellcare | MCR | $310.91 | — |
| Cigna | HealthspringMGMCR | $310.91 | — |
| Celtic | MCR | $310.91 | — |
| Pyramid Life | MCR | $326.15 | — |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | $411.49 | — |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | $429.78 | — |
| Multiplan | WCOMPMissouri | $439.70 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $463.31 | — |
| CorVel Corporation | KSWC | $522.14 | — |
| Multiplan | WCOMPKansas | $535.88 | — |
| OHA Network | KansasWCOMP | $544.12 | — |
| Aetna | Local | $576.09 | — |
| Aetna | National | $707.16 | — |
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Str markers spec anal addl at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER | Kansas City | not published | $154.54 – $544.12 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | not published | $304.81 – $1,018.07 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | not published | $304.81 – $1,018.07 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | not published | $298.71 – $527.32 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | not published | $304.81 – $1,018.07 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | not published | $304.81 – $1,018.07 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | not published | $304.81 – $1,018.07 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | not published | $274.33 – $548.66 |