5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at CHRISTUS St. Francis Cabrini Hospital
3330 Masonic Dr, Alexandria, LA · Christushealth · · NPI 1639160799
$41.46
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.
$159.48
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.
$2.39 with Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana vs $66.52 with United Healthcare — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | PPO | $2.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | HMO | $2.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | Trad | $2.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Louisiana Healthcare Connections | KM | $7.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | MM | $7.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Healthy Horizons KM | $7.98 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | KM | $7.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerihealth Caritas Louisiana | KM | $7.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthy Blue Louisiana | KM | $7.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | KM | $8.64 | ↓ -79% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $9.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $13.96 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $15.96 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana | MM | $33.26 | ↓ -20% |
| Vantage Health Plan Inc. | PPO | $33.26 | ↓ -20% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $33.26 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $35.92 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | PPO | $39.24 | ↓ -5% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $39.91 | ↓ -4% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $39.91 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | New Business | $39.91 | ↓ -4% |
| Gilsbar, Inc. | Alliance PPO | $39.91 | ↓ -4% |
| PPOplus Llc | PPO | $39.91 | ↓ -4% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $39.91 | ↓ -4% |
| Phcs | PPO | $42.52 | ↑ +3% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $42.52 | ↑ +3% |
| HealthSmart | Accel PPO | $43.23 | ↑ +4% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $46.56 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | PPO | $47.22 | ↑ +14% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $53.21 | ↑ +28% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $53.21 | ↑ +28% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $53.21 | ↑ +28% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $56.54 | ↑ +36% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $56.54 | ↑ +36% |
| First Health | PPO | $56.54 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | VA CCN MM | $66.52 | ↑ +60% |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Louisiana hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Louisiana Surgical Hospital | Alexandria | not published | $3.49 – $3.49 |
| CHRISTUS Coushatta Health Care Center | Coushatta | not published | $2.39 – $2.39 |