Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at Inova Fairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA · Inova · · NPI 1831220714
$192.50
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.
$385.00
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.
$13.38 with anthem vs $300.30 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 | $13.38 | ↓ -93% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $13.65 | ↓ -93% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $13.78 | ↓ -93% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $13.92 | ↓ -93% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $14.05 | ↓ -93% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $14.72 | ↓ -92% |
| anthem | hmo | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| united | medicare advantage | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| united | options | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| united | nonoptions | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| united | exchange | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| anthem | ppo | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $22.34 | ↓ -88% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $22.79 | ↓ -88% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $23.23 | ↓ -88% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $23.23 | ↓ -88% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $24.57 | ↓ -87% |
| sentara health | exchange | $49.35 | ↓ -74% |
| sentara health | hmo | $64.92 | ↓ -66% |
| sentara health | ppo | $64.92 | ↓ -66% |
| cigna | hmo | $90.75 | ↓ -53% |
| cigna | exchange | $90.75 | ↓ -53% |
| cigna | ppo | $90.75 | ↓ -53% |
| carefirst | hmo | $141.38 | ↓ -27% |
| carefirst | ppo | $157.30 | ↓ -18% |
| aetna | ppo | $218.64 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | hmo | $218.64 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $229.46 | ↑ +19% |
| innovation | fully insured | $242.20 | ↑ +26% |
| innovation | self insured | $242.20 | ↑ +26% |
| kaiser | hmo | $300.30 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | ppo | $300.30 | ↑ +56% |
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | $664.00 | $19.44 – $32.39 |
| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $192.50 | $13.38 – $242.20 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $192.50 | $13.38 – $242.20 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $192.50 | $13.38 – $242.20 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $192.50 | $13.38 – $242.20 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | $645.00 | $19.44 – $99.88 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-MONTGOMERY | CHRISTIANSBURG | $330.00 | $19.44 – $23.90 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-PULASKI | PULASKI | $744.00 | $17.15 – $23.90 |