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401 N LIVE OAK DR, MONCKS CORNER, SC · HCA Trident Health System · · NPI 1366496937
$18,899.00
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.
$18,899.00
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.
$828.27 with United vs $17,954.05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $828.27 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Choice Health Plan | HIX | $963.29 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | PBHIX | $963.29 | ↓ -95% |
| SC State Employees | COMM | $1,376.90 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | BlueChoice | $1,901.18 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | PreferredBlue | $1,901.18 | ↓ -90% |
| Absolute Total Care | MCD | $3,401.82 | ↓ -82% |
| Pruitt Health | MCR | $3,590.81 | ↓ -81% |
| NHC Advantage | MGMCR | $3,590.81 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna SC | NB | $4,025.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna SC | AFA | $4,025.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna SC | FI | $5,405.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Medcost | NEWULTRA | $7,219.42 | ↓ -62% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $7,559.60 | ↓ -60% |
| United | GlobalBenefit | $8,504.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Employers Health Network | COMM | $8,504.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna SC | SI | $8,939.23 | ↓ -53% |
| Medcost | NEWPAYER | $10,167.66 | ↓ -46% |
| Vocational Rehab | MCR | $10,205.46 | ↓ -46% |
| Medcost | STANDARD | $10,621.24 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana BH | COMM | $12,284.35 | ↓ -35% |
| First Health | PPO | $13,796.27 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana Choicecare | PPO | $14,174.25 | ↓ -25% |
| Evernorth | BHCOMM | $15,119.20 | ↓ -20% |
| Prime Health | COMM | $16,064.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | COMM | $16,064.15 | ↓ -15% |
| NovaNet | COMM | $17,009.10 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | COMM | $17,954.05 | ↓ -5% |