Biospy of bladder at Inova Alexandria Hospital
4320 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1255684460
$518.50
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.
$1,037.00
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.
$243.21 with aetna vs $5,568.00 with carefirst — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| aetna | medicare advantage | $243.21 | ↓ -53% |
| united | medicare advantage | $243.21 | ↓ -53% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $243.21 | ↓ -53% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $248.07 | ↓ -52% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $252.94 | ↓ -51% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $252.94 | ↓ -51% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $267.53 | ↓ -48% |
| cigna | exchange | $473.91 | ↓ -9% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $559.38 | ↑ +8% |
| anthem | ppo | $644.78 | ↑ +24% |
| anthem | hmo | $644.78 | ↑ +24% |
| cigna | ppo | $669.69 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | hmo | $669.69 | ↑ +29% |
| kaiser | hmo | $808.86 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $808.86 | ↑ +56% |
| sentara health | exchange | $883.55 | ↑ +70% |
| united | exchange | $1,127.36 | ↑ +117% |
| sentara health | ppo | $1,162.45 | ↑ +124% |
| sentara health | hmo | $1,162.45 | ↑ +124% |
| united | nonoptions | $1,269.99 | ↑ +145% |
| united | options | $1,269.99 | ↑ +145% |
| innovation | fully insured | $1,509.00 | ↑ +191% |
| innovation | self insured | $1,822.00 | ↑ +251% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $2,144.61 | ↑ +314% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $2,187.50 | ↑ +322% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $2,190.02 | ↑ +322% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $2,208.95 | ↑ +326% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $2,230.39 | ↑ +330% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $2,251.84 | ↑ +334% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $2,359.07 | ↑ +355% |
| aetna | ppo | $2,561.00 | ↑ +394% |
| aetna | hmo | $2,561.00 | ↑ +394% |
| carefirst | hmo | $5,515.00 | ↑ +964% |
| carefirst | ppo | $5,568.00 | ↑ +974% |
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Biospy of bladder at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $518.50 | $243.21 – $5,515.00 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $518.50 | $243.21 – $5,515.00 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $518.50 | $243.21 – $5,515.00 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $518.50 | $243.21 – $5,515.00 |
| Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital | Charlottesville | $447.00 | $248.65 – $511.00 |
| Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center | Woodbridge | $431.50 | $248.65 – $4,039.00 |
| Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital | South Boston | $525.00 | $250.62 – $257.99 |
| Sentara Leigh Hospital | Norfolk | $431.50 | $248.65 – $5,220.00 |