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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
3600 Joseph Siewick Drive Fairfax, VA 22033-1709, VA · Inova · · NPI 1760513980
$575.50
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.
$1,151.00
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.
$80.04 with anthem vs $897.78 with kaiser — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| anthem | medicaid advantage | $80.04 | ↓ -86% |
| united | medicaid advantage | $81.64 | ↓ -86% |
| sentara health | medicaid advantage | $82.44 | ↓ -86% |
| humana | medicaid advantage | $83.24 | ↓ -86% |
| aetna | medicaid advantage | $84.04 | ↓ -85% |
| kaiser | medicaid advantage | $88.04 | ↓ -85% |
| united | medicare advantage | $106.34 | ↓ -82% |
| anthem | medicare advantage | $106.34 | ↓ -82% |
| aetna | medicare advantage | $106.34 | ↓ -82% |
| sentara health | medicare advantage | $108.47 | ↓ -81% |
| kaiser | medicare advantage | $110.59 | ↓ -81% |
| cigna | medicare advantage | $110.59 | ↓ -81% |
| humana | medicare advantage | $116.97 | ↓ -80% |
| carefirst | hmo | $135.80 | ↓ -76% |
| carefirst | ppo | $147.34 | ↓ -74% |
| anthem | exchange hmo | $249.52 | ↓ -57% |
| united | options | $250.18 | ↓ -57% |
| united | exchange | $250.18 | ↓ -57% |
| united | nonoptions | $250.18 | ↓ -57% |
| anthem | hmo | $287.61 | ↓ -50% |
| anthem | ppo | $287.61 | ↓ -50% |
| cigna | exchange | $513.12 | ↓ -11% |
| sentara health | exchange | $649.27 | ↑ +13% |
| aetna | hmo | $653.65 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | ppo | $653.65 | ↑ +14% |
| aetna | fannie-mae | $686.00 | ↑ +19% |
| cigna | hmo | $743.32 | ↑ +29% |
| cigna | ppo | $743.32 | ↑ +29% |
| innovation | fully insured | $758.51 | ↑ +32% |
| innovation | self insured | $758.51 | ↑ +32% |
| sentara health | hmo | $854.22 | ↑ +48% |
| sentara health | ppo | $854.22 | ↑ +48% |
| kaiser | ppo | $897.78 | ↑ +56% |
| kaiser | hmo | $897.78 | ↑ +56% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Virginia hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Inova Alexandria Hospital | Alexandria | $575.50 | $80.04 – $758.51 |
| Inova Fairfax Hospital | Falls Church | $575.50 | $80.04 – $758.51 |
| Inova Loudoun Hospital | Leesburg | $575.50 | $80.04 – $758.51 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | Alexandria | $575.50 | $80.04 – $758.51 |