Specimen fat stain at LEE'S SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER
2100 SE Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1225085871
$341.58
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.
$341.58
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.
$2.98 with Cigna vs $290.34 with CCO, Inc. — 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 | $2.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $3.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Comm | $4.47 | ↓ -99% |
| United | KSMGMCD | $5.25 | ↓ -98% |
| HealthyBlue | MGMCD | $5.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Sunflower State Health Plan | MCD | $5.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Unicare | MGMCD | $5.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $5.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $5.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Home State Health Plan | MCD | $5.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $5.55 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | TRICARE | $5.66 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRHMO | $5.82 | ↓ -98% |
| Coventry | MedicareAdvantage | $5.82 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $5.82 | ↓ -98% |
| Devoted Health | MGMCR | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | PFFS | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MGMCRHMO | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | MGMCRPPO | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| United | VACCN | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $5.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellcare | MCR | $6.00 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MGMCR | $6.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | HealthspringMGMCR | $6.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Celtic | MCR | $6.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Pyramid Life | MCR | $6.29 | ↓ -98% |
| United | MOMGMCD | $6.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | $7.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | $8.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Multiplan | WCOMPMissouri | $8.30 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Preferred-CareBlue(PPO) | $8.44 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | BlueAccess | $8.44 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Blue-Care(HMO) | $8.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | HIX | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| CorVel Corporation | KSWC | $9.86 | ↓ -97% |
| Multiplan | WCOMPKansas | $10.12 | ↓ -97% |
| OHA Network | KansasWCOMP | $10.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | POS | $10.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | HMO | $10.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | EPO | $10.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | PPO | $10.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | ASO | $10.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Local | $11.11 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | National | $13.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem MissouriCare | MissouriCareMGMCD | $44.41 | ↓ -87% |
| Ambetter | Commercial-Exchange | $63.53 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCR | $64.90 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCD | $64.90 | ↓ -81% |
| WPPA ProviDrs Care Network | UnifiedHealthPlan | $68.32 | ↓ -80% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $85.74 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetworkSelect | $92.23 | ↓ -73% |
| Universal Healthcare | MCR | $119.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry | WCOMP | $137.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | FHMedicalRental | $137.32 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetwork | $140.05 | ↓ -59% |
| Coventry KC MO | WCOMP | $140.05 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | PC | $140.05 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | Participating | $146.88 | ↓ -57% |
| College Park Family Care Center | COMM | $146.88 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $146.88 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $153.71 | ↓ -55% |
| OHA Network | MissouriWCOMP | $170.79 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | NATIONALNAP | $174.21 | ↓ -49% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $181.04 | ↓ -47% |
| CorVel Corporation | MOWC | $222.03 | ↓ -35% |
| Multiplan | ComplimentaryNetwork | $252.77 | ↓ -26% |
| FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, Inc | WORKERSCOMP | $256.19 | ↓ -25% |
| Evernorth (Cigna) Behavioral Health | COMMBH | $273.26 | ↓ -20% |
| CCO, Inc. | WORKERSCOMPPPO | $290.34 | ↓ -15% |
| CCO, Inc. | COMM | $290.34 | ↓ -15% |
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Specimen fat stain at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | $37.40 | $5.76 – $10.17 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | $40.70 | $5.29 – $10.58 |
| Mercy Hospital Lincoln | Troy | $77.35 | $5.74 – $8.15 |
| Mercy Hospital Carthage | Carthage | $45.50 | $5.23 – $21.77 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $53.95 | $4.48 – $30.97 |
| RESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC CENTER | Kansas City | $181.00 | $2.98 – $10.57 |
| LAFAYETTE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER | Lexington | $227.12 | $5.25 – $10.28 |
| RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER | Kansas City | $362.23 | $2.98 – $10.28 |