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Chest X-ray (single view) at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
2501 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1922139120
$247.00
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.
$494.00
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.
$80.04 with anthem vs $385.32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $80.04 | ↓ -68% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $81.64 | ↓ -67% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $82.44 | ↓ -67% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $83.24 | ↓ -66% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $84.04 | ↓ -66% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $88.04 | ↓ -64% |
| united | medicare advantage | $88.05 | ↓ -64% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $88.05 | ↓ -64% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $88.05 | ↓ -64% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $89.81 | ↓ -64% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $91.57 | ↓ -63% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $91.57 | ↓ -63% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $96.86 | ↓ -61% |
| united | options | $185.87 | ↓ -25% |
| united | exchange | $185.87 | ↓ -25% |
| united | nonoptions | $185.87 | ↓ -25% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $204.26 | ↓ -17% |
| cigna | exchange | $220.23 | ↓ -11% |
| anthem | hmo | $235.46 | ↓ -5% |
| anthem | ppo | $235.46 | ↓ -5% |
| sentara health | exchange | $278.66 | ↑ +13% |
| aetna | hmo | $280.54 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | ppo | $280.54 | ↑ +14% |
| carefirst | hmo | $290.82 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $294.42 | ↑ +19% |
| carefirst | ppo | $315.53 | ↑ +28% |
| cigna | hmo | $319.03 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | ppo | $319.03 | ↑ +29% |
| innovation | fully insured | $325.55 | ↑ +32% |
| innovation | self insured | $325.55 | ↑ +32% |
| sentara health | hmo | $366.62 | ↑ +48% |
| sentara health | ppo | $366.62 | ↑ +48% |
| kaiser | ppo | $385.32 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $385.32 | ↑ +56% |
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Chest X-ray (single view) at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $247.00 | $80.04 – $325.55 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $247.00 | $80.04 – $325.55 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $247.00 | $80.04 – $325.55 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $247.00 | $80.04 – $325.55 |