Aluminum - quest at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
1201 S Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1942685920
$201.85
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.
$367.00
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.
$24.97 with BCBS vs $54.43 with Healthlink — 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 Medicare Managed Care Plan | $24.97 | ↓ -88% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Non-PPO Other Commercial Plan | $25.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $25.48 | ↓ -87% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $25.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Centene | Wellcare Medicare Managed Care - PPO | $25.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Advantra Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25.99 | ↓ -87% |
| Essence | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $26.24 | ↓ -87% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Employee | $30.58 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Anthem Pathway Exchange | $41.57 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $42.46 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice All Commercial Plans | $42.46 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $42.88 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $45.77 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $54.43 | ↓ -73% |
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Aluminum - quest at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital | Saint Louis | $81.40 | $25.48 – $49.99 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | $64.35 | $25.48 – $105.08 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $64.35 | $25.48 – $105.08 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $64.35 | $25.48 – $105.08 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $64.35 | $25.48 – $105.08 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $64.35 | $25.48 – $105.08 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | $73.15 | $22.93 – $45.86 |
| Mercy Hospital Aurora | Aurora | $91.00 | $12.47 – $35.31 |