Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1558937474
$3,801.00
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.
$7,602.00
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.
$3,460.86 with Bcbs vs $29,543.00 with Cigna — 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 | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,460.86 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $3,514.09 | ↓ -8% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,530.08 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,548.88 | ↓ -7% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $3,720.42 | ↓ -2% |
| Molina | Exchange | $3,806.95 | ↑ +0% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $4,350.50 | ↑ +14% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $4,390.34 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $5,192.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $5,742.70 | ↑ +51% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $5,742.70 | ↑ +51% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $5,853.78 | ↑ +54% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $9,857.73 | ↑ +159% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $10,275.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $10,828.69 | ↑ +185% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $29,543.00 | ↑ +677% |
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Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $13,449.00 | $3,330.05 – $12,276.00 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $4,610.00 | $3,217.15 – $11,769.00 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $5,004.00 | not published |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $5,921.50 | $3,330.05 – $3,663.06 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $5,921.50 | $3,196.60 – $3,663.06 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $4,282.50 | $3,330.05 – $11,692.00 |
| MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center | Lancaster | $5,313.50 | $3,479.30 – $18,792.00 |
| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | not published | $364.13 – $6,357.21 |