Exchange nephrostomy cath at MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center
1315 Roberts Street, Camden, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1487220307
$1,139.00
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.
$2,278.00
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.
$1,300.45 with Bcbs vs $5,193.94 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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| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $1,300.45 | ↑ +14% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $1,368.89 | ↑ +20% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $1,368.89 | ↑ +20% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $1,774.80 | ↑ +56% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,020.59 | ↑ +77% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,061.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,121.62 | ↑ +86% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,136.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $2,172.13 | ↑ +91% |
| Molina | Exchange | $2,222.65 | ↑ +95% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $2,366.40 | ↑ +108% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $4,728.22 | ↑ +315% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $5,193.94 | ↑ +356% |
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Exchange nephrostomy cath at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $14,737.50 | $1,774.80 – $3,708.00 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $2,746.80 | not published |
| MUSC Health Chester Medical Center | Chester | $1,245.50 | $1,774.80 – $9,204.00 |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $1,473.00 | $1,944.22 – $2,138.64 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $1,473.00 | $1,292.14 – $2,138.64 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $1,065.00 | $1,576.56 – $3,532.00 |
| MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center | Lancaster | $1,321.50 | $1,774.80 – $2,869.00 |
| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | not published | $232.96 – $2,569.91 |