Repair/graft achilles tendon at CHRISTUS Louisiana Surgical Hospital
651 N Bolton Ave, Alexandria, LA · Christushealth · · NPI 1164750840
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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.
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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.
$552.64 with Louisana Healthcare Connections vs $18,822.87 with Aetna — 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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| Louisana Healthcare Connections | Medicaid | $552.64 | — |
| Amerihealth Caritas Louisiana | Medicaid | $552.64 | — |
| Aetna | Better Health Medicaid | $552.64 | — |
| Healthy Blue Louisiana | Medicaid | $558.17 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | HMO | $3,949.35 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | PPO | $3,949.35 | — |
| Cigna | All Plans | $5,202.00 | — |
| Aetna | Better Health Medicare | $6,795.26 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | Medicare | $6,795.26 | — |
| Vantage Health Plan Inc. | Medicare | $6,795.26 | — |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $6,861.00 | — |
| Dignity Health | All Plans | $6,999.12 | — |
| Humana | All Plans | $15,968.86 | — |
| Aetna | New Business | $16,036.81 | — |
| Vantage Health Plan Inc. | Commercial | $16,988.15 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | $18,822.87 | — |
| Multiplan | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Gilsbar Inc. | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Provider Select | All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| PPOplus Llc | All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
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Repair/graft achilles tendon at other Louisiana hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS St. Francis Cabrini Hospital | Alexandria | not published | $552.64 – $13,893.70 |
| CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital | Lake Charles | not published | $552.64 – $10,814.26 |
| CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System-Highland | Shreveport | not published | $552.64 – $9,273.59 |
| CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital | Lake Charles | not published | $552.64 – $10,647.94 |
| CHRISTUS Coushatta Health Care Center | Coushatta | not published | $535.50 – $12,643.72 |