Explore parathyroid glands at Inova Alexandria Hospital

4320 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1255684460

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

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Gross charge

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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.

$4,817.00 with innovation vs $15,683.27 with anthem — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
innovation fully insured $4,817.00
innovation self insured $5,809.00
aetna medicare advantage $5,915.66
united medicare advantage $5,915.66
anthem medicare advantage $5,915.66
sentara health medicare advantage $6,033.97
cigna medicare advantage $6,152.29
kaiser medicare advantage $6,152.29
anthem medicaid advantage $6,318.47
united medicaid advantage $6,444.84
humana medicare advantage $6,507.23
sentara health medicaid advantage $6,508.02
humana medicaid advantage $6,571.21
aetna medicaid advantage $6,634.39
kaiser medicaid advantage $6,950.32
aetna fannie-mae $7,003.02
sentara health exchange $7,229.04
aetna hmo $8,191.00
aetna ppo $8,191.00
sentara health ppo $9,510.97
sentara health hmo $9,510.97
carefirst hmo $9,927.00
united exchange $9,971.52
carefirst ppo $10,024.00
united nonoptions $11,224.94
united options $11,224.94
anthem exchange hmo $13,606.10
anthem ppo $15,683.27
anthem hmo $15,683.27

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Explore parathyroid glands at other Virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital Alexandria not published $4,817.00 – $9,927.00
Maryview Hospital Portsmouth $35,780.80 $5,775.89 – $5,891.41
St Mary's Hospital Richmond $28,940.17 $5,939.19 – $6,057.97
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Memorial Regional Hospital Mechanicsville $24,337.02 $5,939.19 – $6,057.97
Southside Regional Medical Center Petersburg $28,736.88 $5,775.89 – $5,891.41
Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church not published $4,817.00 – $9,927.00
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