Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1558937474
$2,130.50
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.
$4,261.00
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.
$1,175.18 with Aetna vs $3,014.21 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 | All Commercial Plans | $1,175.18 | ↓ -45% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $1,221.71 | ↓ -43% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,251.42 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $1,270.67 | ↓ -40% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,276.45 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,283.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $1,345.28 | ↓ -37% |
| Molina | Exchange | $1,376.57 | ↓ -35% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $1,598.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $1,598.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $1,628.94 | ↓ -24% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $1,706.99 | ↓ -20% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $2,743.94 | ↑ +29% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $3,014.21 | ↑ +41% |
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Nuclear Stress Test (Heart) at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | $10,434.00 | $152.85 – $2,284.59 |
| LIVE OAK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS | Ladson | $10,434.00 | $152.85 – $2,284.59 |
| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $5,615.00 | $1,204.12 – $1,324.54 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $3,601.50 | $895.51 – $1,376.57 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $3,167.40 | not published |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $2,044.00 | $1,204.12 – $1,324.54 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $2,044.00 | $889.79 – $1,324.54 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $1,556.00 | $1,085.64 – $1,324.54 |