Drain neck/chest lesion 21501 at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
2501 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1922139120
$2,130.00
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.
$4,260.00
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.
$2,149.00 with innovation vs $7,653.83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| innovation | fully insured | $2,149.00 | ↑ +1% |
| innovation | self insured | $2,589.00 | ↑ +22% |
| cigna | exchange | $2,763.00 | ↑ +30% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $2,862.05 | ↑ +34% |
| united | medicare advantage | $2,862.05 | ↑ +34% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $2,862.05 | ↑ +34% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $2,919.29 | ↑ +37% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $2,976.53 | ↑ +40% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $2,976.53 | ↑ +40% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $3,116.15 | ↑ +46% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $3,148.26 | ↑ +48% |
| kaiser | hmo | $3,322.80 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $3,322.80 | ↑ +56% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $3,327.83 | ↑ +56% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $3,394.39 | ↑ +59% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $3,427.66 | ↑ +61% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $3,460.94 | ↑ +62% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $3,494.22 | ↑ +64% |
| cigna | hmo | $3,580.00 | ↑ +68% |
| cigna | ppo | $3,580.00 | ↑ +68% |
| aetna | ppo | $3,645.00 | ↑ +71% |
| aetna | hmo | $3,645.00 | ↑ +71% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $3,660.61 | ↑ +72% |
| sentara health | exchange | $3,855.49 | ↑ +81% |
| carefirst | hmo | $4,413.00 | ↑ +107% |
| carefirst | ppo | $4,455.00 | ↑ +109% |
| sentara health | hmo | $5,072.52 | ↑ +138% |
| sentara health | ppo | $5,072.52 | ↑ +138% |
| united | exchange | $5,470.40 | ↑ +157% |
| united | nonoptions | $6,158.37 | ↑ +189% |
| united | options | $6,158.37 | ↑ +189% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $6,639.89 | ↑ +212% |
| anthem | hmo | $7,653.83 | ↑ +259% |
| anthem | ppo | $7,653.83 | ↑ +259% |
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Drain neck/chest lesion 21501 at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $2,130.00 | $2,149.00 – $4,413.00 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $2,130.00 | $2,149.00 – $4,413.00 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $2,130.00 | $2,149.00 – $4,413.00 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $2,130.00 | $2,149.00 – $4,413.00 |
| Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital | Charlottesville | $1,393.00 | $1,571.00 – $5,978.00 |
| Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center | Woodbridge | $3,021.00 | $2,890.77 – $3,486.00 |
| Lonesome Pine Hospital | BIG STONE GAP | $1,309.95 | $232.07 – $6,801.81 |
| Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital | South Boston | $3,948.00 | $2,913.65 – $2,999.35 |