Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
2501 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1922139120
$43.03
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.
$86.06
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.
$47.49 with cigna vs $483.78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cigna | hmo | $47.49 | ↑ +10% |
| cigna | ppo | $47.49 | ↑ +10% |
| cigna | exchange | $47.49 | ↑ +10% |
| kaiser | hmo | $52.52 | ↑ +22% |
| kaiser | ppo | $52.52 | ↑ +22% |
| anthem | ppo | $53.08 | ↑ +23% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $53.08 | ↑ +23% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $53.08 | ↑ +23% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $53.08 | ↑ +23% |
| united | medicare advantage | $53.08 | ↑ +23% |
| anthem | hmo | $53.08 | ↑ +23% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $54.14 | ↑ +26% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $55.20 | ↑ +28% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $55.20 | ↑ +28% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $58.38 | ↑ +36% |
| sentara health | exchange | $74.05 | ↑ +72% |
| carefirst | hmo | $82.62 | ↑ +92% |
| carefirst | ppo | $82.62 | ↑ +92% |
| united | options | $87.58 | ↑ +104% |
| united | exchange | $87.58 | ↑ +104% |
| united | nonoptions | $87.58 | ↑ +104% |
| sentara health | ppo | $97.42 | ↑ +126% |
| sentara health | hmo | $97.42 | ↑ +126% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $439.80 | ↑ +922% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $448.60 | ↑ +943% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $452.99 | ↑ +953% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $457.39 | ↑ +963% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $461.79 | ↑ +973% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $483.78 | ↑ +1024% |
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Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $43.03 | $47.49 – $82.62 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | $1,132.00 | $45.12 – $140.66 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $43.03 | $47.49 – $82.62 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $43.03 | $47.49 – $82.62 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $43.03 | $47.49 – $82.62 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-MONTGOMERY | CHRISTIANSBURG | $292.00 | $45.12 – $140.66 |
| TRICITIES HOSPITAL | HOPEWELL | $1,720.00 | $45.12 – $140.66 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | not published | $45.12 – $140.66 |