Cholesterol body fluid at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
3600 Joseph Siewick Drive Fairfax, VA 22033-1709, VA · Inova · · NPI 1760513980
$166.00
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.
$332.00
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.
$14.35 with anthem vs $143.70 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 | $14.35 | ↓ -91% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $14.64 | ↓ -91% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $14.78 | ↓ -91% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $14.92 | ↓ -91% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $15.07 | ↓ -91% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $15.79 | ↓ -90% |
| carefirst | hmo | $50.60 | ↓ -70% |
| carefirst | ppo | $56.30 | ↓ -66% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $64.83 | ↓ -61% |
| anthem | hmo | $73.21 | ↓ -56% |
| anthem | ppo | $73.21 | ↓ -56% |
| united | exchange | $82.35 | ↓ -50% |
| aetna | hmo | $83.48 | ↓ -50% |
| aetna | ppo | $83.48 | ↓ -50% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $87.61 | ↓ -47% |
| innovation | self insured | $92.48 | ↓ -44% |
| innovation | fully insured | $92.48 | ↓ -44% |
| united | options | $101.00 | ↓ -39% |
| united | nonoptions | $101.00 | ↓ -39% |
| kaiser | hmo | $114.66 | ↓ -31% |
| kaiser | ppo | $114.66 | ↓ -31% |
| cigna | exchange | $143.70 | ↓ -13% |
| cigna | hmo | $143.70 | ↓ -13% |
| cigna | ppo | $143.70 | ↓ -13% |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $166.00 | $14.35 – $143.70 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $166.00 | $14.35 – $143.70 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $166.00 | $14.35 – $143.70 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $166.00 | $14.35 – $143.70 |
| CJW Medical Center-Chippenham Hospital Campus | CHESTERFIELD | $335.00 | $98.69 – $98.69 |
| RESTON HOSPITAL CENTER | VIENNA | $310.00 | $45.35 – $87.48 |
| HENRICO DOCTORS HOSPITAL | RICHMOND | $335.00 | $98.69 – $98.69 |
| TRICITIES HOSPITAL | HOPEWELL | not published | $98.69 – $98.69 |