Assay of osteocalcin at MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center
800 W Meeting St, Lancaster, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1700359205
$40.50
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.
$81.00
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.
$29.85 with Bcbs vs $447.09 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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| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $29.85 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $30.45 | ↓ -25% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $32.09 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Exchange | $32.84 | ↓ -19% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $51.31 | ↑ +27% |
| Bcbs | Employee | $113.22 | ↑ +180% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $150.96 | ↑ +273% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $304.39 | ↑ +652% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice/Blueoptions Exchange | $315.49 | ↑ +679% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $315.49 | ↑ +679% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $407.00 | ↑ +905% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $447.09 | ↑ +1004% |
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Assay of osteocalcin at other South-carolina hospitals
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| HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER | MONCKS CORNER | $272.00 | $25.48 – $163.94 |
| LIVE OAK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS | Ladson | $272.00 | $25.48 – $163.94 |
| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $39.00 | $17.10 – $32.84 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $124.00 | $29.85 – $32.84 |
| MUSC Health Chester Medical Center | Chester | $110.00 | $17.08 – $32.84 |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $42.00 | $29.85 – $32.84 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $42.00 | $29.85 – $82.62 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $30.50 | $17.10 – $100.81 |