MRI brain without dye at Inova Fairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA · Inova · · NPI 1831220714
$728.50
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.
$1,457.00
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.
$345.07 with anthem vs $18,500.70 with cigna — 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 | $345.07 | ↓ -53% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $351.97 | ↓ -52% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $355.42 | ↓ -51% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $358.87 | ↓ -51% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $362.32 | ↓ -50% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $379.58 | ↓ -48% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $548.30 | ↓ -25% |
| united | medicare advantage | $548.30 | ↓ -25% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $548.30 | ↓ -25% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $559.27 | ↓ -23% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $570.23 | ↓ -22% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $570.23 | ↓ -22% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $603.13 | ↓ -17% |
| carefirst | hmo | $1,011.05 | ↑ +39% |
| carefirst | ppo | $1,096.96 | ↑ +51% |
| united | nonoptions | $1,110.33 | ↑ +52% |
| united | options | $1,110.33 | ↑ +52% |
| united | exchange | $1,110.33 | ↑ +52% |
| kaiser | ppo | $1,136.46 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $1,136.46 | ↑ +56% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $1,300.45 | ↑ +79% |
| anthem | hmo | $1,499.00 | ↑ +106% |
| anthem | ppo | $1,499.00 | ↑ +106% |
| sentara health | exchange | $1,686.78 | ↑ +132% |
| innovation | fully insured | $2,149.00 | ↑ +195% |
| sentara health | hmo | $2,219.23 | ↑ +205% |
| sentara health | ppo | $2,219.23 | ↑ +205% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $2,247.51 | ↑ +209% |
| innovation | self insured | $2,589.00 | ↑ +255% |
| aetna | hmo | $2,629.00 | ↑ +261% |
| aetna | ppo | $2,629.00 | ↑ +261% |
| cigna | exchange | $18,500.70 | ↑ +2440% |
| cigna | hmo | $18,500.70 | ↑ +2440% |
| cigna | ppo | $18,500.70 | ↑ +2440% |
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MRI brain without dye at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $728.50 | $345.07 – $2,149.00 |
| Inova Fair Oaks Hospital | VA 22033-1709 | $728.50 | $345.07 – $2,149.00 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $728.50 | $345.07 – $2,149.00 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $728.50 | $345.07 – $2,149.00 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-ALLEGHANY | LOW MOOR | not published | $800.91 – $1,086.50 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | not published | $477.01 – $1,086.50 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-MONTGOMERY | CHRISTIANSBURG | not published | $655.36 – $1,086.50 |
| LEWISGALE HOSPITAL-PULASKI | PULASKI | not published | $541.51 – $1,086.50 |