Compatibility test incubate at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$49.83
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.
$151.00
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.
$15.10 with United Healthcare vs $731.85 with Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $15.10 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $15.10 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $15.10 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $15.10 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $16.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $16.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star KM | $16.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $16.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $16.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $18.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $45.30 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $45.30 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star KM | $45.30 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $66.72 | ↑ +34% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $67.95 | ↑ +36% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $75.50 | ↑ +52% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $85.82 | ↑ +72% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $90.60 | ↑ +82% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $98.15 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $98.15 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $98.15 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $98.15 | ↑ +97% |
| Aetna | EPO | $104.19 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | POS | $104.19 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | PPO | $104.19 | ↑ +109% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $105.70 | ↑ +112% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $105.70 | ↑ +112% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $105.70 | ↑ +112% |
| Cigna | New Business | $105.78 | ↑ +112% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $120.80 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $120.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $120.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $120.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $128.35 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | PPO | $135.37 | ↑ +172% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $146.47 | ↑ +194% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $146.47 | ↑ +194% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Aetna | MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Wellcare | MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $171.64 | ↑ +244% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $176.79 | ↑ +255% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $176.79 | ↑ +255% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $180.22 | ↑ +262% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $183.65 | ↑ +269% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $185.37 | ↑ +272% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $185.37 | ↑ +272% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $188.80 | ↑ +279% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $188.80 | ↑ +279% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $188.80 | ↑ +279% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $240.30 | ↑ +382% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $343.28 | ↑ +589% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $343.28 | ↑ +589% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $552.48 | ↑ +1009% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $618.49 | ↑ +1141% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $618.49 | ↑ +1141% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $687.37 | ↑ +1279% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $731.85 | ↑ +1369% |
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Compatibility test incubate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $647.07 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $957.45 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $554.35 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,040.20 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $869.82 | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $48.83 | $76.00 – $193.77 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $133.70 | $36.95 – $382.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $100.45 | $11.50 – $516.60 |