Intro windpipe wire/tube at Inova Alexandria Hospital
4320 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1255684460
$1,295.00
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.
$2,590.00
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.
$1,724.47 with united vs $4,571.83 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.
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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| united | medicare advantage | $1,724.47 | ↑ +33% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $1,724.47 | ↑ +33% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $1,724.47 | ↑ +33% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $1,758.96 | ↑ +36% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $1,793.45 | ↑ +38% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $1,793.45 | ↑ +38% |
| sentara health | exchange | $1,847.42 | ↑ +43% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $1,896.92 | ↑ +46% |
| kaiser | ppo | $2,020.20 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $2,020.20 | ↑ +56% |
| cigna | exchange | $2,067.00 | ↑ +60% |
| innovation | fully insured | $2,149.00 | ↑ +66% |
| sentara health | ppo | $2,430.58 | ↑ +88% |
| sentara health | hmo | $2,430.58 | ↑ +88% |
| carefirst | hmo | $2,485.00 | ↑ +92% |
| carefirst | ppo | $2,510.00 | ↑ +94% |
| united | exchange | $2,538.64 | ↑ +96% |
| innovation | self insured | $2,589.00 | ↑ +100% |
| cigna | ppo | $2,678.00 | ↑ +107% |
| cigna | hmo | $2,678.00 | ↑ +107% |
| united | nonoptions | $2,857.22 | ↑ +121% |
| united | options | $2,857.22 | ↑ +121% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $3,116.15 | ↑ +141% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $3,213.51 | ↑ +148% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $3,277.78 | ↑ +153% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $3,309.92 | ↑ +156% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $3,342.05 | ↑ +158% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $3,374.19 | ↑ +161% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $3,534.86 | ↑ +173% |
| aetna | ppo | $3,645.00 | ↑ +181% |
| aetna | hmo | $3,645.00 | ↑ +181% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $3,966.32 | ↑ +206% |
| anthem | ppo | $4,571.83 | ↑ +253% |
| anthem | hmo | $4,571.83 | ↑ +253% |
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Intro windpipe wire/tube at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $1,295.00 | $1,724.47 – $2,485.00 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $1,295.00 | $1,724.47 – $2,485.00 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $1,295.00 | $1,724.47 – $2,485.00 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $1,295.00 | $1,724.47 – $2,485.00 |
| Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital | Charlottesville | not published | $1,010.00 – $3,276.00 |
| Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center | Woodbridge | not published | $1,723.00 – $2,603.00 |
| Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital | South Boston | not published | $1,785.37 – $1,837.89 |
| Sentara Leigh Hospital | Norfolk | not published | $1,771.35 – $3,408.00 |