Drainage external ear simple 69000 at Inova Loudoun Hospital

44045 Riverside Parkway, Leesburg, VA · Inova · · NPI 1376564302

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$2,380.00

Cash price

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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.

$4,760.00

Gross charge

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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.

$266.70 with anthem vs $2,561.00 with aetna — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
anthem medicaid advantage $266.70 ↓ -89%
united medicaid advantage $272.03 ↓ -89%
sentara health medicaid advantage $274.70 ↓ -88%
humana medicaid advantage $277.37 ↓ -88%
aetna medicaid advantage $280.04 ↓ -88%
kaiser medicaid advantage $293.37 ↓ -88%
anthem medicare advantage $703.59 ↓ -70%
united medicare advantage $703.59 ↓ -70%
aetna medicare advantage $703.59 ↓ -70%
sentara health medicare advantage $717.66 ↓ -70%
cigna medicare advantage $731.73 ↓ -69%
kaiser medicare advantage $731.73 ↓ -69%
humana medicare advantage $773.95 ↓ -67%
carefirst hmo $1,043.00 ↓ -56%
carefirst ppo $1,054.00 ↓ -56%
cigna exchange $1,087.66 ↓ -54%
sentara health exchange $1,285.16 ↓ -46%
innovation fully insured $1,509.00 ↓ -37%
cigna ppo $1,537.00 ↓ -35%
cigna hmo $1,537.00 ↓ -35%
anthem exchange hmo $1,643.51 ↓ -31%
sentara health ppo $1,690.84 ↓ -29%
sentara health hmo $1,690.84 ↓ -29%
united exchange $1,719.12 ↓ -28%
innovation self insured $1,822.00 ↓ -23%
kaiser hmo $1,856.40 ↓ -22%
kaiser ppo $1,856.40 ↓ -22%
anthem hmo $1,894.51 ↓ -20%
anthem ppo $1,894.51 ↓ -20%
united options $1,935.37 ↓ -19%
united nonoptions $1,935.37 ↓ -19%
aetna fannie-mae $2,190.02 ↓ -8%
aetna hmo $2,561.00 ↑ +8%
aetna ppo $2,561.00 ↑ +8%

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Drainage external ear simple 69000 at other Virginia hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria $2,380.00 $266.70 – $1,509.00
Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church $2,380.00 $266.70 – $1,509.00
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital VA 22033-1709 $2,380.00 $266.70 – $1,509.00
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital Alexandria $2,380.00 $266.70 – $1,509.00
Johnston Memorial Hospital ABINGDON $56.70 $32.96 – $1,506.19
Russell County Hospital LEBANON $56.70 $84.82 – $1,506.19
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Charlottesville $497.00 $704.73 – $2,845.00
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center Woodbridge $475.00 $704.73 – $3,988.00

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