I believe you're thinking of the provider's chargemaster and the pricing discrepancies there - this procedure was billable as 10,000 to a patient without insurance with the 7,000 discount being the payor's preferred rate - that 10k is the BS number that (mostly[1]) no one ever pays, while this 3k is the actual amount changing hands - for the patient the out of pocket cost is the most visible portion, but that bill was fully paid.
1. Mostly everyone except for the uninsured or out of network - those folks will get stuck with that BS price 7k price, which is there since payors always want to feel like they're paying discount prices.
(edit - corrected numbers to be in line with the actual bill)