Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at 62-1519754 BMH Golden Triangle
2520 5th St N, Columbus, MS · Baptistonline · · NPI 1609830173
$40.75
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.
$163.00
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.
$5.17 with TriWest vs $81.00 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TriWest | Veterans Administration | $5.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana Tricare | Behavioral Health | $5.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Veterans Evaluation Services | Veterans Administration TPA | $5.39 | ↓ -87% |
| VACCN | Veterans Administration | $5.39 | ↓ -87% |
| MS Breast and Cervical | MS-BCCP | $5.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare | $5.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Medicaid | $5.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare | $5.50 | ↓ -87% |
| MS BCBS | Medicare | $5.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Shared Health | Medicare | $5.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.66 | ↓ -86% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare | $5.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Magnolia MS | Exchange | $7.28 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $7.39 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $7.39 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | CHIP | $7.50 | ↓ -82% |
| MS BCBS | Commercial | $7.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Advanced Health Systems Inc. | Commercial | $7.50 | ↓ -82% |
| First State Bank Trust | Commercial | $9.16 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | CHIP | $9.43 | ↓ -77% |
| Y K Auto Group | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Arlington Community Schools | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Armstrong Relocation | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Ashley Furniture Stores | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Bartlett City Schools | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Brimhall Foods | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Building Plastic | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Burch Food Services | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Cannon Motor Company | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Carlisle | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| City of Bartlett | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| City of Lakeland | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Collierville Schools | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Crittenden County | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Davidson Hospitality | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| DeSoto Co Board of Supervisors | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Dunn Investment Company | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| EAS MSSC Schools | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Mechanical Systems | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Mid-South Transport | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Patterson Warehouses | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| REI Nation | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Radians | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Retzer Resources | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Ritchey Automotive | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Security One | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Silver Tree | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| State Systems | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Town of Collierville | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| United TN Holdings | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Vaughn Electric | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| W G Yates | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| W W Wood Products | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Watkins Uiberall | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Delta Industries | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| MINACT | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| First Choice Health Plan of MS | HPN | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| First Community Bank | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| French Camp Academy | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Gossett Motor Cars | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Hattiesburg Clinic | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Heartland Catfish Company | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Heavy Machines | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Hollowell Industries | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Hospitality Management Advisors | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Jas D Collier | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Lakeland School System | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Malco Theaters | Commercial | $9.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Exchange | $9.97 | ↓ -76% |
| Harding Academy | Commercial | $10.78 | ↓ -74% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $10.78 | ↓ -74% |
| MPCN | PPO/HMO | $10.78 | ↓ -74% |
| Primewell | Commercial | $15.09 | ↓ -63% |
| PPO Holdings | Commercial | $34.20 | ↓ -16% |
| Magnolia Regional Health Center | Commercial | $36.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Littler | Commercial | $45.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $49.50 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $56.34 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | PPO | $59.40 | ↑ +46% |
| First Choice Health Plan of MS | Commercial | $63.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Multiplan | Complementary Network | $67.50 | ↑ +66% |
| Multiplan | MPI Primary Network | $67.50 | ↑ +66% |
| NovaSys | All | $67.50 | ↑ +66% |
| Christian Health Aid | Commercial | $72.00 | ↑ +77% |
| PPO Plus | Commercial | $76.50 | ↑ +88% |
| QCA | All | $81.00 | ↑ +99% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64-0682111 BMH DeSoto | Southaven | $44.40 | $5.12 – $15.09 |
| 64-0772726 BMH North Mississippi | Oxford | $35.88 | $5.17 – $15.09 |
| 64-0844470 MBMC Yazoo | Yazoo City | $82.41 | $5.39 – $7.50 |
| 45-2896080 MBMC Leake | Carthage | $90.45 | $5.39 – $7.50 |
| 64-0663760 BMH Booneville | Booneville | $32.40 | $5.17 – $15.09 |