Block tap inj(s) w/wo img bi at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
1201 S Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1942685920
$3,577.20
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.
$6,504.00
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.
$96.88 with BCBS vs $3,851.00 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 Pathway Exchange | $96.88 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $98.94 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice All Commercial Plans | $98.94 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $106.65 | ↓ -97% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Employee | $537.00 | ↓ -85% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Non-PPO Other Commercial Plan | $760.00 | ↓ -79% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $961.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Carelink All Commercial Plans | $1,642.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $2,496.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,535.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthlink | PPO | $3,851.00 | ↑ +8% |
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Block tap inj(s) w/wo img bi at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital | Saint Louis | not published | $82.41 – $3,158.00 |
| Mercy Hospital Lincoln | Troy | $3,545.10 | $106.10 – $108.22 |
| Mercy Hospital Carthage | Carthage | $936.32 | $5.92 – $148.54 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $5,299.45 | $54.93 – $148.54 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | not published | $84.37 – $2,167.00 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | not published | $84.37 – $2,167.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | not published | $84.37 – $2,167.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | not published | $84.37 – $2,167.00 |