Ndl insj without njx 1 or 2 musc at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
1201 S Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO · SSM Health · · NPI 1942685920
$33.55
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$61.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$28.39 with BCBS vs $3,148.00 with Centene — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | Anthem Medicare Managed Care Plan | $28.39 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $28.97 | ↓ -14% |
| Centene | Wellcare Medicare Managed Care - PPO | $29.26 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $29.46 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Advantra Medicare Managed Care Plan | $29.55 | ↓ -12% |
| Essence | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $29.84 | ↓ -11% |
| Oscar | Exchange | $34.76 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS | Anthem Pathway Exchange | $133.68 | ↑ +298% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Preferred HMO/POS | $136.53 | ↑ +307% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access Choice All Commercial Plans | $136.53 | ↑ +307% |
| BCBS | Anthem Blue Access PPO | $147.16 | ↑ +339% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $289.00 | ↑ +761% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Employee | $537.00 | ↑ +1501% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Non-PPO Other Commercial Plan | $760.00 | ↑ +2165% |
| UnitedHealthCare | Options PPO | $961.00 | ↑ +2764% |
| Aetna | Carelink All Commercial Plans | $1,234.00 | ↑ +3578% |
| Healthlink | HMO | $1,632.00 | ↑ +4764% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,907.00 | ↑ +5584% |
| Healthlink | PPO | $2,857.00 | ↑ +8416% |
| Centene | Ambetter Exchange | $3,148.00 | ↑ +9283% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Ndl insj without njx 1 or 2 musc at other Missouri hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital | Saint Louis | not published | $113.72 – $2,109.00 |
| Mercy Hospital Aurora | Aurora | $43.55 | $29.87 – $29.87 |
| Mercy Hospital Carthage | Carthage | $41.60 | $22.45 – $22.45 |
| Mercy Hospital Southeast | Cape Girardeau | $58.50 | $11.89 – $185.84 |
| Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield | Ozark | $61.75 | $11.95 – $54.81 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis | Lake Saint Louis | not published | $28.97 – $2,167.00 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis | Bridgeton | not published | $28.97 – $2,167.00 |
| SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital- Wentzville | Wentzville | not published | $116.42 – $2,167.00 |