Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (with contrast) at LIVE OAK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
3445 Ingleside Blvd, Ladson, SC · HCA Trident Health System · · NPI 1124443478
$10,794.00
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.
$10,794.00
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.
$338.05 with Select Health vs $10,254.30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select Health | HIX | $338.05 | ↓ -97% |
| Absolute Total Care | HIX | $624.98 | ↓ -94% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -92% |
| SC State Employees | COMM | $860.03 | ↓ -92% |
| BLUE CHOICE | MGMCD | $871.36 | ↓ -92% |
| United | MCD | $871.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Choice Health Plan | HIX | $963.29 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | PBHIX | $963.29 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | PreferredBlue | $1,845.81 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BlueChoice | $1,845.81 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna SC | AFA | $1,909.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna SC | NB | $1,909.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Absolute Total Care | MCD | $1,942.92 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCR | $2,050.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health | MCR | $2,050.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna SC | FI | $2,561.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Medcost | NEWULTRA | $4,123.31 | ↓ -62% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $4,317.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna SC | SI | $4,684.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $4,857.30 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $4,857.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Medcost | NEWPAYER | $5,807.17 | ↓ -46% |
| Vocational Rehab | MCR | $5,828.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Medcost | STANDARD | $6,066.23 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana BH | COMM | $7,016.10 | ↓ -35% |
| First Health | PPO | $7,879.62 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana Choicecare | PPO | $8,095.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Evernorth | BHCOMM | $8,635.20 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $9,174.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Prime Health | COMM | $9,174.90 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $9,714.60 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | COMM | $10,254.30 | ↓ -5% |
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Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (with contrast) at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | $10,794.00 | $338.05 – $963.29 |
| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $5,253.00 | $324.48 – $356.93 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $2,074.00 | $337.23 – $370.95 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $857.40 | not published |
| MUSC Health Chester Medical Center | Chester | $1,202.50 | $337.23 – $370.95 |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $1,004.50 | $324.48 – $356.93 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $1,004.50 | $324.48 – $443.33 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $935.00 | $324.48 – $557.14 |