Culture screening strep group a at 62-1519754 BMH Golden Triangle

2520 5th St N, Columbus, MS · Baptistonline · · NPI 1609830173

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 27, 2026 · Ingested Sep 16, 2026

$89.50

Cash price

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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.

$358.00

Gross charge

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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.

$6.36 with TriWest vs $23.40 with QCA — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
TriWest Veterans Administration $6.36 ↓ -93%
Humana Tricare Behavioral Health $6.63 ↓ -93%
Veterans Evaluation Services Veterans Administration TPA $6.63 ↓ -93%
MS Breast and Cervical MS-BCCP $6.63 ↓ -93%
VACCN Veterans Administration $6.63 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare $6.70 ↓ -93%
Molina Medicaid $6.76 ↓ -92%
Devoted Health Medicare $6.76 ↓ -92%
MS BCBS Medicare $6.83 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $6.96 ↓ -92%
Shared Health Medicare $6.96 ↓ -92%
American Health Plan Medicare $6.96 ↓ -92%
Magnolia MS Exchange $8.95 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Options PPO $9.12 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.12 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare CHIP $9.26 ↓ -90%
PPO Holdings Commercial $9.88 ↓ -89%
Magnolia Regional Health Center Commercial $10.40 ↓ -88%
MS BCBS Commercial $10.44 ↓ -88%
Advanced Health Systems Inc. Commercial $10.44 ↓ -88%
First State Bank Trust Commercial $11.27 ↓ -87%
Molina CHIP $11.60 ↓ -87%
Y K Auto Group Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Arlington Community Schools Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Armstrong Relocation Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Ashley Furniture Stores Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Bartlett City Schools Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Brimhall Foods Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Building Plastic Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Burch Food Services Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Cannon Motor Company Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Carlisle Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
City of Bartlett Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
City of Lakeland Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Collierville Schools Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Crittenden County Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Davidson Hospitality Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
DeSoto Co Board of Supervisors Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Dunn Investment Company Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
EAS MSSC Schools Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
First Choice Health Plan of MS HPN $11.93 ↓ -87%
First Community Bank Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
French Camp Academy Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Gossett Motor Cars Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Patterson Warehouses Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
REI Nation Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Radians Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Retzer Resources Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Ritchey Automotive Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Security One Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Silver Tree Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
State Systems Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Town of Collierville Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
United TN Holdings Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Vaughn Electric Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
W G Yates Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
W W Wood Products Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Watkins Uiberall Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Delta Industries Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
MINACT Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Hattiesburg Clinic Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Heartland Catfish Company Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Heavy Machines Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Hollowell Industries Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Hospitality Management Advisors Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Jas D Collier Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Lakeland School System Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Malco Theaters Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Mechanical Systems Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Mid-South Transport Commercial $11.93 ↓ -87%
Molina Exchange $12.27 ↓ -86%
Littler Commercial $13.00 ↓ -85%
Harding Academy Commercial $13.26 ↓ -85%
MPCN PPO/HMO $13.26 ↓ -85%
Employers Health Network Commercial $13.26 ↓ -85%
Cigna Commercial $14.30 ↓ -84%
Aetna Commercial $16.28 ↓ -82%
Humana PPO $17.16 ↓ -81%
First Choice Health Plan of MS Commercial $18.20 ↓ -80%
Primewell Commercial $18.56 ↓ -79%
Multiplan Complementary Network $19.50 ↓ -78%
Multiplan MPI Primary Network $19.50 ↓ -78%
NovaSys All $19.50 ↓ -78%
Christian Health Aid Commercial $20.80 ↓ -77%
PPO Plus Commercial $22.10 ↓ -75%
QCA All $23.40 ↓ -74%

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Culture screening strep group a at other Mississippi hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
64-0682111 BMH DeSoto Southaven $140.80 $6.30 – $18.56
64-0772726 BMH North Mississippi Oxford $62.56 $6.36 – $18.56
64-0844470 MBMC Yazoo Yazoo City $202.54 $6.63 – $10.44
45-2896080 MBMC Leake Carthage $222.30 $6.63 – $10.44
64-0663760 BMH Booneville Booneville $123.12 $6.36 – $18.56

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