Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at CHRISTUS St. Francis Cabrini Hospital
3330 Masonic Dr, Alexandria, LA · Christushealth · · NPI 1639160799
$26.78
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.
$103.00
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.
$4.71 with Humana vs $45.90 with Verity Healthnet National — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $4.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $4.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $4.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana | MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | KM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | VA CCN MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Vantage Health Plan Inc. | Gold Plus MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Louisiana Healthcare Connections | KM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerihealth Caritas Louisiana | KM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $4.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthy Blue Louisiana | KM | $4.86 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $4.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Healthy Horizons KM | $4.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Peoples Health | MM | $4.95 | ↓ -82% |
| Dignity Health | MM | $4.95 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellcare | MM | $5.05 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | KM | $5.05 | ↓ -81% |
| AllyAlign Health | MM | $5.29 | ↓ -80% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $5.29 | ↓ -80% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $6.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Active Med | PPO | $8.42 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $16.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | HMO | $17.32 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | Trad | $17.32 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana | PPO | $17.32 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | New Business | $25.28 | ↓ -6% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $27.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Vantage Health Plan Inc. | PPO | $27.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | PPO | $28.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | PPO | $29.74 | ↑ +11% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $32.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $32.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Gilsbar, Inc. | Alliance PPO | $32.40 | ↑ +21% |
| PPOplus Llc | PPO | $35.10 | ↑ +31% |
| HealthSmart | Accel PPO | $35.10 | ↑ +31% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $37.80 | ↑ +41% |
| Phcs | PPO | $37.80 | ↑ +41% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $37.80 | ↑ +41% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $43.20 | ↑ +61% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $43.20 | ↑ +61% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $43.20 | ↑ +61% |
| First Health | PPO | $45.90 | ↑ +71% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $45.90 | ↑ +71% |