Venous mech thrombectomy at MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
1 Medical Park Drive, Chester, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1558937474
$15,443.50
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.
$30,887.00
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.
$5,871.89 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 | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $5,871.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $5,925.69 | ↓ -62% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $7,750.97 | ↓ -50% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Exchange | $7,750.97 | ↓ -50% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $7,900.92 | ↓ -49% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11,158.76 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $11,330.38 | ↓ -27% |
| Clover Health | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11,381.93 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11,442.56 | ↓ -26% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $11,995.66 | ↓ -22% |
| Molina | Exchange | $12,274.63 | ↓ -21% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $13,305.06 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $13,594.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $14,615.59 | ↓ -5% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $20,575.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $29,543.00 | ↑ +91% |
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Venous mech thrombectomy at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital | GREER | $10,229.70 | $472.50 – $55,994.03 |
| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $7,598.00 | $5,925.69 – $12,500.00 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $6,804.60 | not published |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $7,382.00 | $10,737.00 – $11,810.69 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $7,382.00 | $4,314.47 – $11,810.69 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $5,437.50 | $5,264.18 – $11,904.00 |
| MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center | Lancaster | $5,492.50 | $5,925.69 – $21,847.00 |
| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | not published | $434.00 – $8,580.40 |