Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
1201 S Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1942685920
$2,853.95
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.
$5,189.00
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.
$516.40 with BCBS vs $4,332.00 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 | $516.40 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice All Commercial Plans | $527.43 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $527.43 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $568.51 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Carelink All Commercial Plans | $1,642.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,719.00 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,916.76 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,955.88 | ↓ -31% |
| Centene | Wellcare Medicare Managed Care - PPO | $1,975.44 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,989.13 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Advantra Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,995.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Essence | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,014.55 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $2,187.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $2,347.05 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,535.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Centene | Ambetter Exchange | $3,148.00 | ↑ +10% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Employee | $3,241.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Healthlink | PPO | $3,406.00 | ↑ +19% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Non-PPO Other Commercial Plan | $3,881.00 | ↑ +36% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $4,332.00 | ↑ +52% |
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Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery 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 | $439.32 – $3,935.00 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City | Jefferson City | $5,762.90 | $1,778.00 – $3,520.58 |
| Mercy Hospital Aurora | Aurora | $5,927.86 | $320.00 – $2,563.64 |
| Mercy Hospital Lincoln | Troy | $5,989.78 | $1,664.70 – $2,456.43 |
| Mercy Hospital Carthage | Carthage | $3,737.51 | $625.47 – $3,990.04 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $12,735.84 | $383.42 – $12,548.69 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $8,481.76 | $320.00 – $3,700.39 |
| Mercy Primary Care - Bernie | Bernie | $912.75 | $335.75 – $1,060.29 |