Echo exam of fetal heart at Inova Fairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA · Inova · · NPI 1831220714
$559.50
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.
$1,119.00
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.
$143.89 with anthem vs $872.82 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 | $143.89 | ↓ -74% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $146.77 | ↓ -74% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $148.21 | ↓ -74% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $149.65 | ↓ -73% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $151.08 | ↓ -73% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $158.28 | ↓ -72% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $241.72 | ↓ -57% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $241.72 | ↓ -57% |
| united | medicare advantage | $241.72 | ↓ -57% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $246.55 | ↓ -56% |
| carefirst | hmo | $249.63 | ↓ -55% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $251.39 | ↓ -55% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $251.39 | ↓ -55% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $265.89 | ↓ -52% |
| carefirst | ppo | $270.85 | ↓ -52% |
| cigna | exchange | $498.85 | ↓ -11% |
| united | exchange | $528.75 | ↓ -5% |
| united | nonoptions | $528.75 | ↓ -5% |
| united | options | $528.75 | ↓ -5% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $573.31 | ↑ +2% |
| sentara health | exchange | $631.22 | ↑ +13% |
| aetna | hmo | $635.48 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | ppo | $635.48 | ↑ +14% |
| anthem | ppo | $660.84 | ↑ +18% |
| anthem | hmo | $660.84 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $666.92 | ↑ +19% |
| cigna | ppo | $722.65 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | hmo | $722.65 | ↑ +29% |
| innovation | self insured | $737.42 | ↑ +32% |
| innovation | fully insured | $737.42 | ↑ +32% |
| sentara health | ppo | $830.47 | ↑ +48% |
| sentara health | hmo | $830.47 | ↑ +48% |
| kaiser | hmo | $872.82 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $872.82 | ↑ +56% |
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Echo exam of fetal heart at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $559.50 | $143.89 – $737.42 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $559.50 | $143.89 – $737.42 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $559.50 | $143.89 – $737.42 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $559.50 | $143.89 – $737.42 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | $1,928.00 | $121.76 – $764.86 |
| SPOTSYLVANIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | Fredericksburg | $1,144.52 | $101.87 – $720.22 |
| HENRICO DOCTORS HOSPITAL | RICHMOND | $1,928.00 | $126.30 – $764.86 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | not published | $204.43 – $517.79 |