Ep & ablate ventric tachy at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
1201 S Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1942685920
$23,100.00
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.
$42,000.00
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.
$1,398.16 with BCBS vs $40,705.00 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 | $1,398.16 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $1,428.01 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice All Commercial Plans | $1,428.01 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $1,539.25 | ↓ -93% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Employee | $5,965.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Centene | Ambetter Exchange | $9,640.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Carelink All Commercial Plans | $13,116.00 | ↓ -43% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Non-PPO Other Commercial Plan | $17,746.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $20,254.00 | ↓ -12% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $20,721.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25,656.46 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $26,180.06 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $26,356.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Centene | Wellcare Medicare Managed Care - PPO | $26,441.86 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $26,625.12 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Advantra Medicare Managed Care Plan | $26,703.66 | ↑ +16% |
| Essence | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $26,965.46 | ↑ +17% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $31,416.07 | ↑ +36% |
| Healthlink | PPO | $40,705.00 | ↑ +76% |
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Ep & ablate ventric tachy at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital | Saint Louis | $21,121.74 | $1,189.45 – $6,976.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | $14,079.45 | $1,217.66 – $31,416.07 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | $14,079.45 | $1,217.66 – $31,416.07 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | $14,079.45 | $1,217.66 – $14,460.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles | Saint Charles | $14,079.45 | $1,217.66 – $31,416.07 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis | Richmond Heights | $14,079.45 | $1,217.66 – $31,416.07 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $23,442.25 | $17,278.84 – $167,967.97 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $24,991.20 | $530.69 – $49,530.86 |