Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at 62-1519754 BMH Golden Triangle
2520 5th St N, Columbus, MS · Baptistonline · · NPI 1609830173
$764.00
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.
$3,056.00
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.
$227.50 with Behavioral Health Systems vs $2,494.80 with MS BCBS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Health Systems | Behavioral Health | $227.50 | ↓ -70% |
| PPO Holdings | Commercial | $345.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Magnolia Regional Health Center | Commercial | $364.00 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | CHIP | $409.50 | ↓ -46% |
| Molina | Exchange | $455.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Littler | Commercial | $455.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $500.50 | ↓ -34% |
| TriWest | Veterans Administration | $542.89 | ↓ -29% |
| Veterans Evaluation Services | Veterans Administration TPA | $565.51 | ↓ -26% |
| MS Breast and Cervical | MS-BCCP | $565.51 | ↓ -26% |
| VACCN | Veterans Administration | $565.51 | ↓ -26% |
| Humana Tricare | Behavioral Health | $565.51 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $569.66 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Medicare | $571.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Medicaid | $576.82 | ↓ -25% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare | $576.82 | ↓ -25% |
| MS BCBS | Medicare | $582.48 | ↓ -24% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare | $593.79 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $593.79 | ↓ -22% |
| Shared Health | Medicare | $593.79 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | PPO | $600.60 | ↓ -21% |
| First Choice Health Plan of MS | Commercial | $637.00 | ↓ -17% |
| NovaSys | All | $682.50 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | Complementary Network | $682.50 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | MPI Primary Network | $682.50 | ↓ -11% |
| Christian Health Aid | Commercial | $728.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Magnolia MS | Exchange | $763.78 | ↓ -0% |
| PPO Plus | Commercial | $773.50 | ↑ +1% |
| QCA | All | $819.00 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $939.00 | ↑ +23% |
| First State Bank Trust | Commercial | $961.37 | ↑ +26% |
| Molina | CHIP | $989.64 | ↑ +30% |
| Patterson Warehouses | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| REI Nation | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Radians | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Retzer Resources | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Ritchey Automotive | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Security One | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Silver Tree | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| State Systems | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Town of Collierville | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| United TN Holdings | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Vaughn Electric | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| W G Yates | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| W W Wood Products | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Watkins Uiberall | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Delta Industries | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| MINACT | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Y K Auto Group | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Arlington Community Schools | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Armstrong Relocation | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Ashley Furniture Stores | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Bartlett City Schools | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Brimhall Foods | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Building Plastic | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Burch Food Services | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Cannon Motor Company | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Carlisle | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| City of Bartlett | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| City of Lakeland | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Collierville Schools | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Crittenden County | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Davidson Hospitality | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| DeSoto Co Board of Supervisors | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Dunn Investment Company | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| EAS MSSC Schools | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| First Choice Health Plan of MS | HPN | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| First Community Bank | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| French Camp Academy | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Gossett Motor Cars | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Hattiesburg Clinic | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Heartland Catfish Company | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Heavy Machines | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Hollowell Industries | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Hospitality Management Advisors | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Jas D Collier | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Lakeland School System | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Malco Theaters | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Mechanical Systems | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| Mid-South Transport | Commercial | $1,017.92 | ↑ +33% |
| MPCN | PPO/HMO | $1,131.02 | ↑ +48% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $1,131.02 | ↑ +48% |
| Harding Academy | Commercial | $1,131.02 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $1,151.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Primewell | Commercial | $1,583.43 | ↑ +107% |
| Advanced Health Systems Inc. | Commercial | $1,663.20 | ↑ +118% |
| MS BCBS | Commercial | $2,494.80 | ↑ +227% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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