Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at Lincoln Medical Center
234 E 149th St, Bronx, NY · NYC Health + Hospitals · · NPI 1427063270
$1,838.28
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.
$5,014.60
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.
$177.85 with Aetna vs $4,011.68 with MULTIPLAN — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $177.85 | ↓ -90% |
| EMBLEM | PPO_Commercial | $177.85 | ↓ -90% |
| EMBLEM | HIP_GHI_CHP | $177.85 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthfirst | MAP | $220.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthfirst | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $220.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Fidelis | MAP | $256.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Healthfirst | Medicare Advantage PPO | $450.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Amidacare | Managed Medicaid | $493.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthfirst | HARP | $607.70 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthfirst | Managed Medicaid | $607.70 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthfirst | CHP | $607.70 | ↓ -67% |
| Fidelis | CHP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| MetroPlus | HARP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| MetroPlus | CHP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| MetroPlus | Gold | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | EXCHANGE | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Carelon | GHI BMP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Carelon | Managed Medicaid_HARP_CHP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Carelon | Commercial_Essential Plans | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| MetroPlus | SNP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| Fidelis | HARP_Managed Medicaid | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED | HARP | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| MetroPlus | Goldcare 1 & 2 | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| MetroPlus | Managed Medicaid | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $732.17 | ↓ -60% |
| VNSNY | MAP | $746.81 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | CHP | $746.81 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | HARP | $746.81 | ↓ -59% |
| Carelon (Amida Care) | Managed Medicaid | $746.81 | ↓ -59% |
| VNSNY | Medicaid SNP | $746.81 | ↓ -59% |
| Carelon | MAP_Medicare Advantage | $781.00 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $783.42 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | Essential Plan | $805.39 | ↓ -56% |
| OXFORD | Liberty | $820.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Local 1199 | ALL PRODUCTS | $836.00 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | CHP | $915.21 | ↓ -50% |
| EMBLEM | Essential Plan 3-4 | $915.21 | ↓ -50% |
| OXFORD | Freedom | $926.00 | ↓ -50% |
| EMBLEM | Essential Plan 1-2 | $988.43 | ↓ -46% |
| Emblem | Essential Plan 200-250 | $988.43 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | EXCHANGE | $1,040.00 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,147.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Healthfirst | EXCHANGE | $1,171.47 | ↓ -36% |
| Healthfirst | Small Group | $1,193.44 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,235.00 | ↓ -33% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,466.00 | ↓ -20% |
| CIGNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,500.00 | ↓ -18% |
| ANTHEM | Small Group EPO_PPO | $1,536.00 | ↓ -16% |
| ANTHEM | Blue Access Small Group | $1,536.00 | ↓ -16% |
| ANTHEM | Blue Access Large Group | $1,579.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 3-4 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 1-2 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 1-2 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 200-250 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 1-2 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 200-250 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 3-4 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Fidelis | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 200-250 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 1-2 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 3-4 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 200-250 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 3-4 | $1,647.38 | ↓ -10% |
| ANTHEM | EPO | $1,707.00 | ↓ -7% |
| ANTHEM | PPO | $1,707.00 | ↓ -7% |
| ANTHEM | INDEMNITY | $1,707.00 | ↓ -7% |
| ANTHEM | HMO | $1,707.00 | ↓ -7% |
| VACCN | All Products | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| Senior Whole Health | MAP | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| VNSNY | Medicare SNP | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| Senior Whole Health | MLTC | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| VNSNY | Medicare Advantage | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| Hamaspik | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,838.28 | ↑ +0% |
| OXFORD | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,930.19 | ↑ +5% |
| VillageCare Max | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,964.99 | ↑ +7% |
| Elderplan | MAP_Medicare Advantage_MLTC | $1,964.99 | ↑ +7% |
| Centerlight | PACE | $1,964.99 | ↑ +7% |
| VillageCare Max | MAP | $1,964.99 | ↑ +7% |
| Wellcare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,985.34 | ↑ +8% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,063.24 | ↑ +12% |
| MetroPlus | EXCHANGE | $2,220.44 | ↑ +21% |
| MetroPlus | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,220.44 | ↑ +21% |
| MetroPlus | MAP | $2,220.44 | ↑ +21% |
| EMBLEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,297.85 | ↑ +25% |
| Fidelis | EXCHANGE | $2,610.36 | ↑ +42% |
| MAGNACARE | Direct Plus Non-FPP | $3,760.95 | ↑ +105% |
| MAGNACARE | PPO Non-FPP | $3,760.95 | ↑ +105% |
| MAGNACARE | PPO FPP | $3,760.95 | ↑ +105% |
| MAGNACARE | Direct Plus FPP | $3,760.95 | ↑ +105% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,011.68 | ↑ +118% |
| Affinity | HARP_Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Managed Medicaid_HARP_MLTC_MAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Affinity | CHP | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | All Products_Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Anthem HealthPlus | CHP | not published by hospital | — |
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| North Central Bronx | Bronx | $1,838.28 | $177.85 – $2,947.49 |
| Jacobi Medical Center | Bronx | $1,838.28 | $177.85 – $2,947.49 |
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| Bellevue Hospital Center | NY 10016 | $1,838.28 | $106.46 – $2,947.49 |
| Harlem Hospital Center | New York | $1,838.28 | $172.34 – $2,220.44 |
| Kings County Hospital Center | Brooklyn | $1,838.28 | $106.46 – $2,947.49 |
| Metropolitan Hospital Center | New York | $1,838.28 | $177.85 – $2,220.44 |
| UPMC Chautauqua | Jamestown | $367.20 | $130.24 – $1,955.67 |