Echo guide for artery repair at Inova Fairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA · Inova · · NPI 1831220714
$1,077.50
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.
$2,155.00
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.
$294.34 with anthem vs $1,680.90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $294.34 | ↓ -73% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $300.23 | ↓ -72% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $303.17 | ↓ -72% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $306.11 | ↓ -72% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $309.06 | ↓ -71% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $311.40 | ↓ -71% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $311.40 | ↓ -71% |
| united | medicare advantage | $311.40 | ↓ -71% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $317.63 | ↓ -71% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $323.77 | ↓ -70% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $323.86 | ↓ -70% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $323.86 | ↓ -70% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $342.54 | ↓ -68% |
| united | nonoptions | $608.15 | ↓ -44% |
| united | options | $608.15 | ↓ -44% |
| united | exchange | $608.15 | ↓ -44% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $738.57 | ↓ -31% |
| anthem | hmo | $851.33 | ↓ -21% |
| anthem | ppo | $851.33 | ↓ -21% |
| cigna | exchange | $960.70 | ↓ -11% |
| sentara health | exchange | $1,215.61 | ↑ +13% |
| aetna | hmo | $1,223.82 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | ppo | $1,223.82 | ↑ +14% |
| carefirst | hmo | $1,266.17 | ↑ +18% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $1,284.38 | ↑ +19% |
| carefirst | ppo | $1,373.75 | ↑ +27% |
| cigna | ppo | $1,391.70 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | hmo | $1,391.70 | ↑ +29% |
| innovation | self insured | $1,420.15 | ↑ +32% |
| innovation | fully insured | $1,420.15 | ↑ +32% |
| sentara health | ppo | $1,599.33 | ↑ +48% |
| sentara health | hmo | $1,599.33 | ↑ +48% |
| kaiser | hmo | $1,680.90 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $1,680.90 | ↑ +56% |
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Echo guide for artery repair at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $1,077.50 | $294.34 – $1,420.15 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $1,077.50 | $294.34 – $1,420.15 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $1,077.50 | $294.34 – $1,420.15 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $1,077.50 | $294.34 – $1,420.15 |
| LEWISGALE MEDICAL CENTER | ROANOKE | $3,585.00 | $419.83 – $595.01 |
| RESTON HOSPITAL CENTER | VIENNA | $5,068.14 | $350.21 – $1,588.92 |
| HENRICO DOCTORS HOSPITAL | RICHMOND | $737.00 | $293.21 – $1,091.02 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | not published | $474.58 – $595.01 |