Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at HCA HEALTHCARE BRIGHTON PARK ER
401 N LIVE OAK DR, MONCKS CORNER, SC · HCA Trident Health System · · NPI 1366496937
$430.00
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.
$430.00
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.
$19.07 with Humana vs $408.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Tricare | $19.07 | ↓ -96% |
| Devoted Health | MEDICARE | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Advantage Hospice | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| United Behavioral Health | VACCN | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Odyssey Hospice | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana BH | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Companion | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| United | VACCN | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | MCRPPO | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Arcadian | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Agape Hospice | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| HUMANA | MCR | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Agape Hospice | MCD | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Advantage Hospice | MCD | $22.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | MCR | $22.56 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | PPO | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | SNP | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | POS | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | MCRHMO | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| WellCare | PFFS | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | MCRMMP | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Absolute Total Care | MCR | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| United | MCR | $22.79 | ↓ -95% |
| BoldAge PACE | MGMCR | $23.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Clover | MCR | $23.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Eon Health | MCR | $23.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | MCR | $24.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna SC | NB | $25.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna SC | AFA | $25.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Universal Healthcare Group | MCR | $26.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $30.65 | ↓ -93% |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $30.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Employer's Health Network | WCOMP | $30.65 | ↓ -93% |
| BLUE CHOICE | MGMCD | $30.71 | ↓ -93% |
| United | MCD | $30.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Heritage Summit | WorkersComp | $32.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna SC | FI | $34.47 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | PBHIX | $37.83 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Choice Health Plan | HIX | $37.83 | ↓ -91% |
| Absolute Total Care | HIX | $39.09 | ↓ -91% |
| Seven Corners | COMM | $39.09 | ↓ -91% |
| Select Health | HIX | $43.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna SC | SI | $44.81 | ↓ -90% |
| NaphCare | PRISN | $46.91 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | HIX | $67.02 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | PreferredBlue | $74.66 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BlueChoice | $74.66 | ↓ -83% |
| Absolute Total Care | MCD | $77.40 | ↓ -82% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCR | $81.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Pruitt Health | MCR | $81.70 | ↓ -81% |
| SC State Employees | COMM | $104.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Medcost | NEWULTRA | $164.26 | ↓ -62% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $172.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $193.50 | ↓ -55% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $193.50 | ↓ -55% |
| OccuNet | COMM | $215.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Medcost | NEWPAYER | $231.34 | ↓ -46% |
| Vocational Rehab | MCR | $232.20 | ↓ -46% |
| Medcost | STANDARD | $241.66 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana BH | COMM | $279.50 | ↓ -35% |
| First Health | PPO | $313.90 | ↓ -27% |
| MHNet | COMM | $322.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana Choicecare | PPO | $322.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Evernorth | BHCOMM | $344.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Prime Health | COMM | $365.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $365.50 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $387.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | COMM | $408.50 | ↓ -5% |
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other South-carolina hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIVE OAK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS | Ladson | $430.00 | $19.07 – $104.20 |