Convert nephrostomy catheter at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
3600 Joseph Siewick Drive Fairfax, VA 22033-1709, VA · Inova · · NPI 1760513980
$2,360.00
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.
$4,720.00
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.
$686.85 with carefirst vs $5,689.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| carefirst | hmo | $686.85 | ↓ -71% |
| carefirst | ppo | $745.21 | ↓ -68% |
| sentara health | exchange | $1,285.16 | ↓ -46% |
| innovation | fully insured | $1,509.00 | ↓ -36% |
| sentara health | ppo | $1,690.84 | ↓ -28% |
| sentara health | hmo | $1,690.84 | ↓ -28% |
| united | exchange | $1,719.12 | ↓ -27% |
| innovation | self insured | $1,822.00 | ↓ -23% |
| kaiser | ppo | $1,840.80 | ↓ -22% |
| kaiser | hmo | $1,840.80 | ↓ -22% |
| united | nonoptions | $1,935.37 | ↓ -18% |
| united | options | $1,935.37 | ↓ -18% |
| united | medicare advantage | $2,048.51 | ↓ -13% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $2,048.51 | ↓ -13% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $2,048.51 | ↓ -13% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $2,089.48 | ↓ -11% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $2,130.45 | ↓ -10% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $2,130.45 | ↓ -10% |
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $2,144.61 | ↓ -9% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $2,187.50 | ↓ -7% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $2,190.02 | ↓ -7% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $2,208.95 | ↓ -6% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $2,230.39 | ↓ -5% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $2,251.84 | ↓ -5% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $2,253.36 | ↓ -5% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $2,359.07 | ↓ -0% |
| aetna | ppo | $2,561.00 | ↑ +9% |
| aetna | hmo | $2,561.00 | ↑ +9% |
| cigna | exchange | $4,391.00 | ↑ +86% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $4,806.47 | ↑ +104% |
| anthem | hmo | $5,540.24 | ↑ +135% |
| anthem | ppo | $5,540.24 | ↑ +135% |
| cigna | hmo | $5,689.00 | ↑ +141% |
| cigna | ppo | $5,689.00 | ↑ +141% |
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Convert nephrostomy catheter at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $2,360.00 | $686.85 – $2,230.39 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $2,360.00 | $686.85 – $2,230.39 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $2,360.00 | $686.85 – $2,230.39 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $2,360.00 | $686.85 – $2,230.39 |
| RESTON HOSPITAL CENTER | VIENNA | not published | $861.93 – $861.93 |
| STONESPRINGS HOSPITAL CENTER | Dulles | not published | $861.93 – $861.93 |