Gentamicin peak therapeutic drug level at MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1558937474
$107.50
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.
$215.00
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.
$9.37 with Unitedhealthcare vs $79.44 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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| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $9.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $16.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $16.54 | ↓ -85% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $16.71 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $16.71 | ↓ -84% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $17.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Exchange | $18.02 | ↓ -83% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $31.41 | ↓ -71% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $41.88 | ↓ -61% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $42.13 | ↓ -61% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $42.13 | ↓ -61% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $47.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $72.32 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $77.70 | ↓ -28% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $79.44 | ↓ -26% |
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Gentamicin peak therapeutic drug level at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $160.00 | $9.39 – $18.02 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $165.50 | $16.38 – $18.02 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $233.40 | not published |
| St Francis Eastside | Greenville | $233.40 | not published |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $114.50 | $16.38 – $18.02 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $114.50 | $16.38 – $23.45 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $92.50 | $9.39 – $29.47 |
| MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center | Lancaster | $467.50 | $16.38 – $28.18 |