Insertion/replacement temporary single chamber electrode/pacemaker catheter at MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center
800 W Meeting St, Lancaster, SC · Muschealth · · NPI 1700359205
$1,315.50
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.
$2,631.00
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.
$7,420.50 with Bcbs vs $29,237.60 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 | Employee | $7,420.50 | ↑ +464% |
| Bcbs | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8,041.71 | ↑ +511% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8,202.54 | ↑ +524% |
| Absolute Total Care | Ambetter Exchange | $8,644.83 | ↑ +557% |
| Molina | Exchange | $8,845.88 | ↑ +572% |
| Bcbs | State Other Commercial Plan | $9,894.00 | ↑ +652% |
| Bcbs | Lowcountry Blue Exchange | $19,906.84 | ↑ +1413% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice/Blueoptions Exchange | $20,632.09 | ↑ +1468% |
| Bcbs | Blueessentials Exchange | $20,632.09 | ↑ +1468% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $21,847.00 | ↑ +1561% |
| Bcbs | Preferred Blue Ppo | $26,615.94 | ↑ +1923% |
| Bcbs | Bluechoice Hmo | $29,237.60 | ↑ +2123% |
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Insertion/replacement temporary single chamber electrode/pacemaker catheter at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MUSC Health Florence Medical Center | Florence | $7,286.00 | $7,420.50 – $12,500.00 |
| MUSC Health Kershaw Medical Center | Camden | $5,603.50 | $5,437.78 – $19,595.00 |
| St Francis Downtown | Greenville | $11,220.60 | not published |
| St Francis Eastside | Greenville | $10,685.40 | not published |
| MUSC Health Chester Medical Center | Chester | $4,769.00 | $7,353.39 – $20,575.00 |
| MUSC Health Orangeburg Medical Center | Orangeburg | $2,637.50 | $7,696.76 – $8,466.43 |
| MUSC Health Main Campus - Charleston | Charleston | $2,637.50 | $5,403.04 – $8,466.43 |
| MUSC Health Black River Medical Center | Cades | $2,136.50 | $6,592.36 – $11,904.00 |