Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
2501 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1922139120
$3,082.00
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.
$6,164.00
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.
$675.71 with anthem vs $4,807.92 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 | $675.71 | ↓ -78% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $689.22 | ↓ -78% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $695.98 | ↓ -77% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $702.74 | ↓ -77% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $709.50 | ↓ -77% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $743.28 | ↓ -76% |
| united | medicare advantage | $790.06 | ↓ -74% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $790.06 | ↓ -74% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $790.06 | ↓ -74% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $805.86 | ↓ -74% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $821.66 | ↓ -73% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $821.66 | ↓ -73% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $869.07 | ↓ -72% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $1,832.91 | ↓ -41% |
| anthem | hmo | $2,112.80 | ↓ -31% |
| anthem | ppo | $2,112.80 | ↓ -31% |
| carefirst | hmo | $2,146.18 | ↓ -30% |
| carefirst | ppo | $2,258.48 | ↓ -27% |
| united | exchange | $2,533.65 | ↓ -18% |
| cigna | exchange | $2,747.91 | ↓ -11% |
| united | options | $3,191.97 | ↑ +4% |
| united | nonoptions | $3,191.97 | ↑ +4% |
| cigna | hmo | $3,980.71 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | ppo | $3,980.71 | ↑ +29% |
| kaiser | ppo | $4,807.92 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $4,807.92 | ↑ +56% |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $3,082.00 | $675.71 – $2,146.18 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $3,082.00 | $675.71 – $2,146.18 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $3,082.00 | $675.71 – $2,146.18 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $3,082.00 | $675.71 – $2,146.18 |
| RESTON HOSPITAL CENTER | VIENNA | $7,143.14 | $2,214.81 – $2,214.81 |
| STONESPRINGS HOSPITAL CENTER | Dulles | $7,143.14 | $2,214.81 – $2,214.81 |