Adrenal cortex & medulla img at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
6420 Clayton Rd, Richmond Heights, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1780763284
$1,286.45
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.
$2,339.00
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.
$432.68 with BCBS vs $2,677.18 with UnitedHealthCare — 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 |
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| BCBS | Anthem Pathway Exchange | $432.68 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice PPO | $444.62 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $446.73 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $481.82 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | OAP Other Commercial Plan | $650.47 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,296.74 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Gold Advantage Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,309.71 | ↑ +2% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,315.93 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,316.19 | ↑ +2% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,318.78 | ↑ +3% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $1,324.14 | ↑ +3% |
| Healthlink | Employers Choice All Commercial Plans | $1,324.14 | ↑ +3% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $1,556.09 | ↑ +21% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $2,611.88 | ↑ +103% |
| UnitedHealthCare | All Commercial Plans | $2,677.18 | ↑ +108% |
| UnitedHealthCare | St. Louis University Employee | $2,677.18 | ↑ +108% |
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Adrenal cortex & medulla img 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 | $1,286.45 | $432.68 – $1,556.09 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $1,286.45 | $432.68 – $1,556.09 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $1,286.45 | $432.68 – $2,611.88 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $1,286.45 | $432.68 – $1,556.09 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $2,639.65 | $677.44 – $5,078.94 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $2,867.15 | $37.00 – $4,599.47 |
| SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Fenton | Fenton | $1,286.45 | $432.68 – $1,556.09 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital | Saint Louis | not published | $496.82 – $1,658.54 |