Darbepoetin alfa, esrd use at LAFAYETTE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER
1500 State St, Lexington, MO · Hcamidwest · · NPI 1679520258
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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.
$3.02 with United vs $185.09 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 | $3.02 | — |
| Home State Health Plan | MCD | $3.04 | — |
| HealthyBlue | MGMCD | $3.08 | — |
| Sunflower State Health Plan | MCD | $3.11 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCD | $3.14 | — |
| Unicare | MGMCD | $3.14 | — |
| Aetna Better Health | MCD | $3.14 | — |
| United | MOMGMCD | $3.21 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $4.98 | — |
| Ambetter | Commercial-Exchange | $38.25 | — |
| United | OptionsPPO | $51.62 | — |
| Universal Healthcare | MCR | $53.47 | — |
| Aetna Coventry | FamilyHealthPlanMCD | $53.47 | — |
| Humana | ASO | $69.51 | — |
| Humana | HMO | $69.51 | — |
| Humana | EPO | $69.51 | — |
| BCBS | BlueAccess | $78.15 | — |
| BCBS | Preferred-CareBlue(PPO) | $78.15 | — |
| BCBS | FreedomNetworkSelect | $78.15 | — |
| BCBS | Blue-Care(HMO) | $78.15 | — |
| BCBS | FreedomNetwork | $84.32 | — |
| Humana | PPO | $88.43 | — |
| Humana | POS | $88.43 | — |
| BCBS | PC | $88.43 | — |
| United | GlobalBenefitPlan | $92.54 | — |
| Aetna | IVLHIX | $97.68 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $102.83 | — |
| OHA Network | MissouriWCOMP | $102.83 | — |
| Aetna | KCCarePlus | $108.38 | — |
| Cigna | LocalKC | $117.47 | — |
| BCBS | Traditional | $131.62 | — |
| BCBS | Participating | $131.62 | — |
| Aetna | Local | $137.79 | — |
| Cigna | SureFit/LocalPlus | $146.73 | — |
| Cigna | Comm | $146.83 | — |
| WPPA ProviDrs Care Network | UnifiedHealthPlan | $154.24 | — |
| Aetna | NAP | $155.88 | — |
| Aetna | National | $157.53 | — |
| Multiplan | PrimaryNetwork | $160.41 | — |
| Coventry | WCOMP | $164.11 | — |
| Coventry KC MO | WCOMP | $164.11 | — |
| CorVel Corporation | MOWC | $174.80 | — |
| CCO, Inc. | WORKERSCOMPPPO | $174.80 | — |
| CCO, Inc. | COMM | $174.80 | — |
| Aetna | FHMedicalRental | $179.94 | — |
| FOCUS Healthcare Mgmt, Inc | WORKERSCOMP | $185.09 | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Darbepoetin alfa, esrd use at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | not published | $2.92 – $5.12 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | not published | $2.92 – $5.12 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | not published | $2.86 – $5.43 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | not published | $3.50 – $5.12 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | not published | $2.92 – $5.12 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | not published | $2.92 – $5.12 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | not published | $2.90 – $5.26 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Fenton | Fenton | not published | $2.92 – $5.12 |