Artery x-rays lung at MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center
1315 Roberts Street, Camden, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1487220307
$4,409.50
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.
$8,819.00
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.
$230.17 with Aetna vs $4,946.13 with Bcbs — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $230.17 | ↓ -95% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $1,238.40 | ↓ -72% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $1,303.58 | ↓ -70% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $1,303.58 | ↓ -70% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $1,631.66 | ↓ -63% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $2,175.54 | ↓ -51% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,052.06 | ↓ -31% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,113.10 | ↓ -29% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $3,280.96 | ↓ -26% |
| Molina | Exchange | $3,357.27 | ↓ -24% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $4,502.63 | ↑ +2% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $4,946.13 | ↑ +12% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Artery x-rays lung at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $5,857.00 | $1,631.66 – $3,230.37 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $4,657.20 | not published |
| MUSC Health Chester Medical Center | Chester | $2,517.00 | $230.17 – $3,357.27 |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $2,338.00 | $2,936.70 – $3,230.37 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $2,338.00 | $1,230.49 – $3,230.37 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $1,410.50 | $1,546.38 – $3,230.37 |
| MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center | Lancaster | $2,966.00 | $1,631.66 – $3,375.15 |
| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | not published | $121.19 – $5,508.13 |