Electrolyte panel at Inova Fairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA · Inova · · NPI 1831220714
$112.00
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.
$224.00
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.
$7.01 with aetna vs $174.72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| aetna | medicare advantage | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| united | medicare advantage | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| united | options | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| united | nonoptions | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| united | exchange | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| anthem | hmo | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| anthem | ppo | $7.01 | ↓ -94% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $7.15 | ↓ -94% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $7.29 | ↓ -93% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $7.29 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $7.71 | ↓ -93% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $10.76 | ↓ -90% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $10.98 | ↓ -90% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $11.08 | ↓ -90% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $11.19 | ↓ -90% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $11.30 | ↓ -90% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $11.84 | ↓ -89% |
| sentara health | exchange | $15.48 | ↓ -86% |
| sentara health | hmo | $20.37 | ↓ -82% |
| sentara health | ppo | $20.37 | ↓ -82% |
| cigna | hmo | $28.50 | ↓ -75% |
| cigna | ppo | $28.50 | ↓ -75% |
| cigna | exchange | $28.50 | ↓ -75% |
| carefirst | hmo | $44.39 | ↓ -60% |
| carefirst | ppo | $49.39 | ↓ -56% |
| aetna | ppo | $127.21 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | hmo | $127.21 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $133.50 | ↑ +19% |
| innovation | fully insured | $140.92 | ↑ +26% |
| innovation | self insured | $140.92 | ↑ +26% |
| kaiser | hmo | $174.72 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $174.72 | ↑ +56% |
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Electrolyte panel at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | $545.00 | $6.10 – $10.16 |
| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $112.00 | $7.01 – $140.92 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $112.00 | $7.01 – $140.92 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $112.00 | $7.01 – $140.92 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $112.00 | $7.01 – $140.92 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | $347.00 | $6.10 – $31.34 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-MONTGOMERY | CHRISTIANSBURG | $259.00 | $6.10 – $7.50 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-PULASKI | PULASKI | $470.00 | $5.38 – $7.50 |