Heparin assay at Inova Alexandria Hospital
4320 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1255684460
$179.50
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.
$359.00
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.
$5.25 with anthem vs $280.02 with kaiser — 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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| anthem | medicaid advantage | $5.25 | ↓ -97% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $5.36 | ↓ -97% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $5.41 | ↓ -97% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $5.46 | ↓ -97% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $5.51 | ↓ -97% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $5.78 | ↓ -97% |
| anthem | hmo | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| united | medicare advantage | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| united | options | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| united | nonoptions | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| united | exchange | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| anthem | ppo | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $13.09 | ↓ -93% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $13.35 | ↓ -93% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $13.61 | ↓ -92% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $13.61 | ↓ -92% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $14.40 | ↓ -92% |
| sentara health | exchange | $28.91 | ↓ -84% |
| sentara health | hmo | $38.04 | ↓ -79% |
| sentara health | ppo | $38.04 | ↓ -79% |
| cigna | hmo | $53.20 | ↓ -70% |
| cigna | exchange | $53.20 | ↓ -70% |
| cigna | ppo | $53.20 | ↓ -70% |
| carefirst | hmo | $82.85 | ↓ -54% |
| carefirst | ppo | $92.18 | ↓ -49% |
| aetna | ppo | $203.88 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | hmo | $203.88 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $213.96 | ↑ +19% |
| innovation | fully insured | $225.85 | ↑ +26% |
| innovation | self insured | $225.85 | ↑ +26% |
| kaiser | hmo | $280.02 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $280.02 | ↑ +56% |
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Heparin assay at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $179.50 | $5.25 – $225.85 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | $429.00 | $11.39 – $18.98 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $179.50 | $5.25 – $225.85 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $179.50 | $5.25 – $225.85 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $179.50 | $5.25 – $225.85 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | $478.00 | $11.39 – $58.53 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-MONTGOMERY | CHRISTIANSBURG | $832.00 | $11.39 – $14.01 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-PULASKI | PULASKI | $931.00 | $10.05 – $14.01 |