Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
3600 Joseph Siewick Drive Fairfax, VA 22033-1709, VA · Inova · · NPI 1760513980
$1,216.50
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.
$2,433.00
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.
$618.26 with united vs $2,510.00 with carefirst — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| united | medicare advantage | $618.26 | ↓ -49% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $618.26 | ↓ -49% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $618.26 | ↓ -49% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $630.63 | ↓ -48% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $642.99 | ↓ -47% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $642.99 | ↓ -47% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $680.09 | ↓ -44% |
| cigna | exchange | $1,111.88 | ↓ -9% |
| sentara health | exchange | $1,285.16 | ↑ +6% |
| aetna | hmo | $1,381.70 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | ppo | $1,381.70 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $1,450.07 | ↑ +19% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $1,450.65 | ↑ +19% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $1,454.03 | ↑ +20% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $1,483.11 | ↑ +22% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $1,497.65 | ↑ +23% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $1,512.19 | ↑ +24% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $1,526.73 | ↑ +26% |
| innovation | fully insured | $1,530.60 | ↑ +26% |
| innovation | self insured | $1,530.60 | ↑ +26% |
| cigna | hmo | $1,571.23 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | ppo | $1,571.23 | ↑ +29% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $1,599.43 | ↑ +31% |
| anthem | ppo | $1,672.11 | ↑ +37% |
| anthem | hmo | $1,672.11 | ↑ +37% |
| sentara health | hmo | $1,690.84 | ↑ +39% |
| sentara health | ppo | $1,690.84 | ↑ +39% |
| united | exchange | $1,719.12 | ↑ +41% |
| kaiser | ppo | $1,897.74 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $1,897.74 | ↑ +56% |
| united | nonoptions | $1,935.37 | ↑ +59% |
| united | options | $1,935.37 | ↑ +59% |
| carefirst | hmo | $2,485.00 | ↑ +104% |
| carefirst | ppo | $2,510.00 | ↑ +106% |
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Asp & inj w/heparin pleurx cath at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $1,216.50 | $618.26 – $2,485.00 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $1,216.50 | $618.26 – $2,485.00 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $1,216.50 | $618.26 – $2,485.00 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $1,216.50 | $618.26 – $2,485.00 |
| Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital | Charlottesville | $1,126.50 | $624.29 – $1,547.00 |
| Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center | Woodbridge | $1,088.00 | $624.29 – $3,988.00 |
| Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital | South Boston | $1,324.00 | $629.23 – $647.74 |
| Sentara Leigh Hospital | Norfolk | $1,088.00 | $624.29 – $5,220.00 |