Cefotaxime sodium injection at LAFAYETTE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER
1500 State St, Lexington, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1679520258
$30.00
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.
$30.00
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.
$3.43 with United vs $27.00 with FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | KSMGMCD | $3.43 | ↓ -89% |
| HealthyBlue | MGMCD | $3.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Sunflower State Health Plan | MCD | $3.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $3.57 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $3.57 | ↓ -88% |
| Home State Health Plan | MCD | $3.57 | ↓ -88% |
| Unicare | MGMCD | $3.57 | ↓ -88% |
| United | MOMGMCD | $3.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Ambetter | Commercial-Exchange | $5.58 | ↓ -81% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $7.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $7.80 | ↓ -74% |
| Universal Healthcare | MCR | $7.80 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | EPO | $10.14 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | ASO | $10.14 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | HMO | $10.14 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | BlueAccess | $11.40 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS | Preferred-CareBlue(PPO) | $11.40 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetworkSelect | $11.40 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS | Blue-Care(HMO) | $11.40 | ↓ -62% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $12.13 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS | FreedomNetwork | $12.30 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | POS | $12.90 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | PC | $12.90 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | PPO | $12.90 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $13.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | $14.25 | ↓ -53% |
| Oscar | HIX | $15.00 | ↓ -50% |
| OHA Network | MissouriWCOMP | $15.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | $15.81 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $17.14 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $19.20 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS | Participating | $19.20 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Local | $20.10 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | SureFit/LocalPlus | $21.41 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Comm | $21.42 | ↓ -29% |
| WPPA ProviDrs Care Network | UnifiedHealthPlan | $22.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | NAP | $22.74 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | National | $22.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $23.40 | ↓ -22% |
| Coventry | WCOMP | $23.94 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry KC MO | WCOMP | $23.94 | ↓ -20% |
| CorVel Corporation | MOWC | $25.50 | ↓ -15% |
| CCO, Inc. | WORKERSCOMPPPO | $25.50 | ↓ -15% |
| CCO, Inc. | COMM | $25.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | FHMedicalRental | $26.25 | ↓ -13% |
| FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, Inc | WORKERSCOMP | $27.00 | ↓ -10% |
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Cefotaxime sodium injection at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $59.33 | $6.86 – $28.62 |
| CENTERPOINT MEDICAL CENTER | Independence | $97.75 | $3.43 – $3.60 |
| RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER | Kansas City | $84.08 | $3.43 – $4.15 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | not published | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | not published | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | not published | $5.49 – $8.91 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | not published | $10.00 – $10.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | not published | $10.00 – $10.00 |