Cholesterol body fluid at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$21.78
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.
$66.00
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.
$6.60 with United Healthcare vs $56.10 with Triwest — 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 |
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| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $6.60 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $6.60 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $6.60 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $6.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $7.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $7.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $7.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star KM | $7.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $7.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $7.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $9.90 | ↓ -55% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $13.86 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | MM | $15.84 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $19.80 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star KM | $19.80 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $19.80 | ↓ -9% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $26.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $26.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $29.70 | ↑ +36% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $33.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $33.00 | ↑ +52% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $33.00 | ↑ +52% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $33.00 | ↑ +52% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $33.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $39.60 | ↑ +82% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $39.60 | ↑ +82% |
| Cigna | New Business | $42.37 | ↑ +95% |
| First Health | PPO | $42.90 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $42.90 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $42.90 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $42.90 | ↑ +97% |
| Aetna | POS | $45.54 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | PPO | $45.54 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | EPO | $45.54 | ↑ +109% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $46.20 | ↑ +112% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $46.20 | ↑ +112% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $46.20 | ↑ +112% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $52.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $52.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $52.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $52.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Cigna | PPO | $54.22 | ↑ +149% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $56.10 | ↑ +158% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $56.10 | ↑ +158% |
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Cholesterol body fluid at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $716.44 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $462.06 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $136.71 | $53.34 – $275.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $24.90 | $14.50 – $96.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $523.04 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen | Allen | $100.35 | $7.11 – $10.28 |
| Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound | Flower Mound | $100.35 | $7.11 – $10.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $228.00 | $99.55 – $99.55 |