Ghs nerve block lumbar or thoracic symp at SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital - Oklahoma City

1000 North Lee Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK · SSM Health · · NPI 1366545311

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$3,931.40

Cash price

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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.

$7,148.00

Gross charge

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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.

$129.08 with Medica vs $2,126.65 with Community Care — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Medica Exchange $129.08 ↓ -97%
BCBS Medicare Managed Care Plan $850.66 ↓ -78%
UnitedHealthCare Medicare Managed Care Plan $863.25 ↓ -78%
Humana Medicare Managed Care Plan $865.12 ↓ -78%
BCBS Native Blue HMO $876.18 ↓ -78%
PHCS Multiplan All Commercial Plans $991.00 ↓ -75%
Oscar All Commercial Plans $1,119.04 ↓ -72%
Ambetter Health Exchange $1,148.39 ↓ -71%
UnitedHealthCare All Commercial Plans $1,361.80 ↓ -65%
Community Care Select HMO $1,573.72 ↓ -60%
Cigna All Commercial Plans $1,579.00 ↓ -60%
Healthchoice All Commercial Plans $1,602.52 ↓ -59%
Kempton All Commercial Plans $1,658.79 ↓ -58%
Global Health All Commercial Plans $1,820.41 ↓ -54%
Community Care HMO $2,126.65 ↓ -46%

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Ghs nerve block lumbar or thoracic symp at other Oklahoma hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Oklahoma City $2,719.03 $74.03 – $1,840.11
Mercy Hospital Ardmore Northwest Ardmore $4,096.65 $74.03 – $3,047.00
Mercy Hospital Logan County Guthrie $469.30 $71.83 – $1,807.26
Ascension St. John Medical Center (St. John Medical Center, Inc.) Tulsa $342.71 $87.57 – $3,387.44
Ascension St. John Broken Arrow (St. John Broken Arrow, Inc.) Jenks $342.71 $87.57 – $89.93
Ascension St. John Owasso (Owasso Medical Facility, Inc.) Owasso $342.71 $87.57 – $1,905.43
Ascension St. John Jane Phillips (Jane Phillips Memorial Medical Center, Inc.) Bartlesville $342.71 $87.57 – $2,040.73
Ascension St. John Nowata (Jane Phillips Nowata Hospital, Inc.) Nowata $342.71 $87.57 – $174.72

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