Smear gram stain at 64-0682111 BMH DeSoto
7601 Southcrest Parkway, Southaven, MS · Baptistonline · · NPI 1194789818
$31.80
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.
$159.00
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.
$4.06 with Wellpoint vs $55.80 with St. Jude Children's Hospital — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid | $4.06 | ↓ -87% |
| TriWest | Veterans Administration | $4.10 | ↓ -87% |
| VACCN | Veterans Administration | $4.27 | ↓ -87% |
| MS Breast and Cervical | MS-BCCP | $4.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Oscar | Commercial | $4.27 | ↓ -87% |
| Veterans Evaluation Services | Veterans Administration TPA | $4.27 | ↓ -87% |
| AR BCBS | Medicare | $4.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare | $4.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicaid | $4.36 | ↓ -86% |
| AR BCBS | LPPO | $4.36 | ↓ -86% |
| MS BCBS | Medicare | $4.40 | ↓ -86% |
| TN BCBS | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| NovaSys | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Shared Health | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Tribute Health Plan | DSNP | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| TN BCBS | DSNP | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare | $4.48 | ↓ -86% |
| AR BCBS | Preferred Payment Plan | $4.87 | ↓ -85% |
| AR BCBS | TrueBlue Exchange PPO/TrueBlue Non-Exchange PPO | $4.87 | ↓ -85% |
| AR BCBS | TrueBlue Individual Metallic-Level Plan | $4.87 | ↓ -85% |
| AR BCBS | FirstSource PPO | $4.87 | ↓ -85% |
| AR BCBS | HealthAdvantage HMO | $4.87 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $5.87 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5.87 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | CHIP | $5.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Magnolia MS | Exchange | $6.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Brimhall Foods | Commercial | $6.41 | ↓ -80% |
| Rhodes College | Commercial | $6.83 | ↓ -79% |
| Bartlett City Schools | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Arlington Community Schools | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Collierville Schools | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| EAS MSSC Schools | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| City of Lakeland | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| City of Bartlett | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Town of Collierville | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Lakeland School System | Commercial | $7.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Advanced Health Systems Inc. | Commercial | $7.12 | ↓ -78% |
| First State Bank Trust | Commercial | $7.26 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | CHIP | $7.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Cannon Motor Company | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Armstrong Relocation | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Ashley Furniture Stores | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Building Plastic | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Burch Food Services | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| REI Nation | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Carlisle | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Crittenden County | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Davidson Hospitality | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| DeSoto Co Board of Supervisors | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Dunn Investment Company | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| First Choice Health Plan of MS | HPN | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| First Community Bank | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| French Camp Academy | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Gossett Motor Cars | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Hattiesburg Clinic | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Heartland Catfish Company | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Heavy Machines | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Hollowell Industries | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Hospitality Management Advisors | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Jas D Collier | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Malco Theaters | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Mechanical Systems | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Mid-South Transport | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Patterson Warehouses | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Radians | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Retzer Resources | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Ritchey Automotive | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Security One | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Silver Tree | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| State Systems | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| United TN Holdings | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Vaughn Electric | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| W G Yates | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| W W Wood Products | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Watkins Uiberall | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Y K Auto Group | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Delta Industries | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| MINACT | Commercial | $7.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Exchange | $7.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Access Health Services | Commercial | $8.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Harding Academy | Commercial | $8.54 | ↓ -73% |
| MPCN | PPO/HMO | $8.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Employers Health Network | Commercial | $8.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | PPO | $8.92 | ↓ -72% |
| TN BCBS | Network E | $9.14 | ↓ -71% |
| TN BCBS | Network L | $10.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | CPOS/HMO/NPOS | $10.46 | ↓ -67% |
| TN BCBS | Network S | $11.23 | ↓ -65% |
| Primewell | Commercial | $11.96 | ↓ -62% |
| TN BCBS | Network P | $16.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $16.12 | ↓ -49% |
| PPO Holdings | Commercial | $23.56 | ↓ -26% |
| Cooper Realty | Commercial | $24.80 | ↓ -22% |
| Magnolia Regional Health Center | Commercial | $24.80 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | MPI Primary Network | $26.66 | ↓ -16% |
| Littler | Commercial | $31.00 | ↓ -3% |
| First Choice Health Plan of MS | Commercial | $32.86 | ↑ +3% |
| NovaSys | All | $35.96 | ↑ +13% |
| QCA | All | $46.50 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan | Complementary Network | $46.50 | ↑ +46% |
| Christian Health Aid | Commercial | $49.60 | ↑ +56% |
| PPO Plus | Commercial | $49.60 | ↑ +56% |
| St. Jude Children's Hospital | Commercial | $55.80 | ↑ +75% |
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| 64-0772726 BMH North Mississippi | Oxford | $36.57 | $4.10 – $11.96 |
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