Culture anaerobic except blood at Rochester General Hospital
1425 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY · Rochesterregional · · NPI 1255360517
$34.26
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.
$52.70
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.
$7.47 with EXCELLUS vs $14.77 with AETNA — 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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| EXCELLUS | COMMERCIAL | $7.47 | ↓ -78% |
| EXCELLUS | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8.52 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | COMMERCIAL | $8.52 | ↓ -75% |
| MVP - CIGNA | COMMERCIAL | $8.90 | ↓ -74% |
| CDPHP | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.47 | ↓ -72% |
| CDPHP | MEDICAID | $9.47 | ↓ -72% |
| HUMANA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.47 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE Dual | $9.75 | ↓ -72% |
| FIDELIS CARE NEW YORK | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.94 | ↓ -71% |
| WELLCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.94 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $10.32 | ↓ -70% |
| FIDELIS CARE NEW YORK | MEDICAID | $10.89 | ↓ -68% |
| WELLCARE | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE DUAL | $11.84 | ↓ -65% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12.22 | ↓ -64% |
| FIDELIS CARE NEW YORK | EXCHANGE | $14.20 | ↓ -59% |
| AETNA | COMMERCIAL | $14.77 | ↓ -57% |
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Culture anaerobic except blood at other New-york hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| The Unity Hospital of Rochester | Rochester | $42.16 | $8.24 – $12.22 |
| Bellevue Hospital Center | NY 10016 | $9.47 | $1.00 – $23.41 |
| Harlem Hospital Center | New York | $9.47 | $1.00 – $23.41 |
| Kings County Hospital Center | Brooklyn | $9.47 | $1.00 – $23.41 |
| Lincoln Medical Center | Bronx | $9.47 | $1.00 – $23.41 |
| Metropolitan Hospital Center | New York | $9.47 | $1.00 – $23.41 |
| UPMC Chautauqua | Jamestown | $22.80 | $9.47 – $34.20 |
| Queens Hospital Center | Jamaica | $9.47 | $1.00 – $23.41 |