Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1558937474
$52.00
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.
$104.00
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.
$12.81 with Unitedhealthcare vs $184.83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $12.81 | ↓ -75% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $12.81 | ↓ -75% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $35.19 | ↓ -32% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $35.19 | ↓ -32% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $36.10 | ↓ -31% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $36.10 | ↓ -31% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $36.39 | ↓ -30% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $36.39 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $36.66 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $36.66 | ↓ -30% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $36.83 | ↓ -29% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $36.83 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $37.02 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $37.02 | ↓ -29% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $38.81 | ↓ -25% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $38.81 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Exchange | $39.71 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina | Exchange | $39.71 | ↓ -24% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $46.28 | ↓ -11% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $46.28 | ↓ -11% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $46.28 | ↓ -11% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $46.28 | ↓ -11% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $46.92 | ↓ -10% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $46.92 | ↓ -10% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $79.44 | ↑ +53% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $79.44 | ↑ +53% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $87.27 | ↑ +68% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $87.27 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $184.83 | ↑ +255% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $184.83 | ↑ +255% |
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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | $205.00 | $11.67 – $50.96 |
| LIVE OAK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS | Ladson | $205.00 | $11.67 – $50.96 |
| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $83.50 | $8.33 – $38.21 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $118.80 | not published |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $70.50 | $34.74 – $38.21 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $70.50 | $25.76 – $38.21 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $83.50 | $8.33 – $38.21 |
| MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center | Lancaster | $71.00 | $20.08 – $39.93 |