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Lumbar Spinal Fusion (single level) at Kings County Hospital Center
451 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY · NYC Health + Hospitals · · NPI 1043224355
$21,332.75
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.
$4,786.00
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.
$957.14 with Healthfirst vs $43,524.10 with Elderplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthfirst | HARP_Managed Medicaid HMO Primary Services | $957.14 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthfirst | HARP | $1,531.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthfirst | HARP_Managed Medicaid HMO Specialist Services | $1,531.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthfirst | Managed Medicaid | $1,531.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Local 1199 | All Products | $1,655.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Affinity | CHP | $1,684.57 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | All Products | $1,689.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $1,689.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthfirst | CHP | $1,722.85 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthfirst | MAP_Medicare Advantage Specialist Services | $1,780.28 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthfirst | MAP_Medicare Advantage Primary Services | $1,875.99 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | HARP | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| EMBLEM | HIP_GHI_CHP | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | MLTC | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Elderplan | MAP | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | MAP | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthfirst | Small Group | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Fidelis | Managed Medicaid | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Elderplan | Medicare Advantage | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Centerlight | PACE | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthfirst | Medicare Advantage PPO | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Fidelis | CHP | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Elderplan | MLTC | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Fidelis | FHP | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Amidacare | Managed Medicaid | $1,914.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthfirst | Medicare Advantage | $1,930.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $1,942.99 | ↓ -91% |
| Centers Plan for Healthy Living | Medicare Advantage | $1,990.85 | ↓ -91% |
| Hamaspik | Medicare Advantage | $2,009.99 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellcare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,067.42 | ↓ -90% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | CHP | $2,105.71 | ↓ -90% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 1-2 | $2,297.14 | ↓ -89% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 200-250 | $2,366.41 | ↓ -89% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 1-2 | $2,366.41 | ↓ -89% |
| MetroPlus | Essential Plan 3-4 | $2,366.41 | ↓ -89% |
| Oscar | All Products | $2,392.85 | ↓ -89% |
| Fidelis | QHC | $2,550.78 | ↓ -88% |
| Fidelis | MAP | $2,756.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $3,445.70 | ↓ -84% |
| Fidelis | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $3,445.70 | ↓ -84% |
| MetroPlus | HARP | $4,250.78 | ↓ -80% |
| MetroPlus | Managed Medicaid | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| MetroPlus | CHP | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Senior Whole Health | MLTC | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| MetroPlus | Goldcare 1 & 2 | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| MetroPlus | Gold | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| MetroPlus | SNP | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Carelon | Managed Medicaid_HARP_CHP | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Managed Medicaid_HARP_MLTC_MAP | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | EXCHANGE | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Senior Whole Health | MAP | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Fidelis | HARP_Managed Medicaid | $4,672.39 | ↓ -78% |
| VNSNY | Medicaid SNP | $4,765.84 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | HARP | $4,765.84 | ↓ -78% |
| VNSNY | MAP | $4,765.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Affinity | HARP_Managed Medicaid | $4,765.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Carelon (Amida Care) | Managed Medicaid | $4,765.84 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | CHP | $4,765.84 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | Essential Plan | $5,139.63 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthfirst | EXCHANGE | $5,840.49 | ↓ -73% |
| EMBLEM | Essential Plan 3-4 | $5,840.49 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | CHP | $5,840.49 | ↓ -73% |
| EMBLEM | Essential Plan 1-2 | $6,307.73 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $6,952.32 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Essential Plan 1-4_200-250 | $7,438.98 | ↓ -65% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 1-2 | $9,564.26 | ↓ -55% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 200-250 | $9,564.26 | ↓ -55% |
| Affinity | Essential Plan 3-4 | $9,564.26 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | HARP | $10,224.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 1-2 | $10,512.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 3-4 | $10,512.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Essential Plan 3-4 | $10,512.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthfirst | Essential Plan 200-250 | $10,512.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthfirst | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $11,650.39 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthfirst | MAP | $11,650.39 | ↓ -45% |
| VNSNY | Medicare Advantage | $21,762.05 | ↑ +2% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $21,762.05 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $21,762.05 | ↑ +2% |
| VACCN | All Products | $21,762.05 | ↑ +2% |
| VNSNY | Medicare SNP | $21,762.05 | ↑ +2% |
| Centers Plan for Healthy Living | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $22,632.53 | ↑ +6% |
| Fidelis | EXCHANGE | $30,902.11 | ↑ +45% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $32,643.07 | ↑ +53% |
| EMBLEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $32,643.07 | ↑ +53% |
| Elderplan | MAP_Medicare Advantage_MLTC | $43,524.10 | ↑ +104% |
| United Behavioral Health | Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| Anthem HealthPlus | Exchange | not published by hospital | — |
| United Behavioral Health | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United Behavioral Health | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
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Lumbar Spinal Fusion (single level) at other New-york hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Woodhull Medical Center | Brooklyn | $21,551.15 | $957.14 – $32,643.07 |
| South Brooklyn Health | Brooklyn | not published | $1,531.42 – $43,524.10 |
| Bellevue Hospital Center | NY 10016 | $21,551.15 | $919.94 – $32,643.07 |
| Queens Hospital Center | Jamaica | $21,551.15 | $907.48 – $32,643.07 |
| Elmhurst Hospital Center | NY 11373 | not published | $1,451.97 – $43,524.10 |
| Harlem Hospital Center | New York | not published | $1,471.90 – $43,524.10 |
| Jacobi Medical Center | Bronx | not published | $1,531.42 – $43,524.10 |
| Lincoln Medical Center | Bronx | not published | $1,531.42 – $43,524.10 |