Colonoscopy thru stoma spx at Inova Fairfax Hospital

3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA · Inova · · NPI 1831220714

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

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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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Gross charge

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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.

$911.71 with anthem vs $2,857.22 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.

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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.

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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
anthem medicare advantage $911.71
united medicare advantage $911.71
aetna medicare advantage $911.71
sentara health medicare advantage $929.94
cigna medicare advantage $948.18
kaiser medicare advantage $948.18
humana medicare advantage $1,002.88
anthem medicaid advantage $1,437.24
united medicaid advantage $1,465.98
sentara health medicaid advantage $1,480.36
humana medicaid advantage $1,494.73
innovation fully insured $1,509.00
aetna medicaid advantage $1,509.10
kaiser medicaid advantage $1,580.96
innovation self insured $1,822.00
sentara health exchange $1,847.42
cigna exchange $2,067.00
anthem exchange hmo $2,162.38
aetna fannie-mae $2,190.02
sentara health ppo $2,430.58
sentara health hmo $2,430.58
carefirst hmo $2,485.00
anthem hmo $2,492.53
anthem ppo $2,492.53
carefirst ppo $2,510.00
united exchange $2,538.64
aetna hmo $2,561.00
aetna ppo $2,561.00
cigna ppo $2,678.00
cigna hmo $2,678.00
united options $2,857.22
united nonoptions $2,857.22

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Colonoscopy thru stoma spx at other Virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Maryview Hospital Portsmouth $4,205.57 $907.35 – $925.49
St Mary's Hospital Richmond $5,470.20 $933.00 – $951.66
Memorial Regional Hospital Mechanicsville $4,214.30 $933.00 – $951.66
Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria not published $911.71 – $2,485.00
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital VA 22033-1709 not published $911.71 – $2,485.00
Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg not published $911.71 – $2,485.00
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital Alexandria not published $911.71 – $2,485.00
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Charlottesville not published $925.49 – $3,276.00

All Virginia hospitals for this procedure →