Special physics consult at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
2501 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA · Inova · · NPI 1922139120
$600.00
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.
$1,200.00
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.
$132.77 with united vs $4,354.84 with united — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| united | medicare advantage | $132.77 | ↓ -78% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $132.77 | ↓ -78% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $132.77 | ↓ -78% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $135.43 | ↓ -77% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $138.08 | ↓ -77% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $138.08 | ↓ -77% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $146.05 | ↓ -76% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $171.97 | ↓ -71% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $175.41 | ↓ -71% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $177.13 | ↓ -70% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $178.85 | ↓ -70% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $180.57 | ↓ -70% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $189.17 | ↓ -68% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $308.03 | ↓ -49% |
| anthem | hmo | $355.07 | ↓ -41% |
| anthem | ppo | $355.07 | ↓ -41% |
| carefirst | hmo | $508.24 | ↓ -15% |
| carefirst | ppo | $551.42 | ↓ -8% |
| sentara health | exchange | $676.91 | ↑ +13% |
| aetna | hmo | $681.48 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | ppo | $681.48 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $715.20 | ↑ +19% |
| innovation | self insured | $790.80 | ↑ +32% |
| innovation | fully insured | $790.80 | ↑ +32% |
| sentara health | ppo | $890.58 | ↑ +48% |
| sentara health | hmo | $890.58 | ↑ +48% |
| kaiser | ppo | $936.00 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $936.00 | ↑ +56% |
| cigna | exchange | $1,652.00 | ↑ +175% |
| cigna | ppo | $2,140.00 | ↑ +257% |
| cigna | hmo | $2,140.00 | ↑ +257% |
| united | exchange | $3,455.55 | ↑ +476% |
| united | nonoptions | $4,354.84 | ↑ +626% |
| united | options | $4,354.84 | ↑ +626% |
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Special physics consult at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $600.00 | $132.77 – $790.80 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $600.00 | $132.77 – $790.80 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $600.00 | $132.77 – $790.80 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $600.00 | $132.77 – $790.80 |
| Johnston Memorial Hospital | ABINGDON | $175.05 | $96.80 – $285.89 |
| Russell County Hospital | LEBANON | $175.05 | $96.80 – $285.89 |
| Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital | Charlottesville | $673.50 | $133.76 – $137.70 |
| Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center | Woodbridge | $575.50 | $133.76 – $496.61 |