CT guidance for needle placement at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$752.73
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.
$2,281.00
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.
$225.22 with Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas vs $1,996.00 with Partners Direct Health — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $225.22 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $228.10 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $228.10 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $228.10 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $228.10 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Star KM | $250.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $250.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $250.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $250.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $250.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $273.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $315.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $315.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $342.15 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $351.12 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $373.01 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $425.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $479.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | MM | $547.44 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $684.30 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $684.30 | ↓ -9% |
| Molina | Star KM | $684.30 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | New Business | $847.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | New Business | $858.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $912.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $912.40 | ↑ +21% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $915.00 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | HMO | $940.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | PPO | $940.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | EPO | $940.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | POS | $940.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $988.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,098.00 | ↑ +46% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $1,140.50 | ↑ +52% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $1,140.50 | ↑ +52% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $1,140.50 | ↑ +52% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,187.00 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,221.00 | ↑ +62% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $1,368.60 | ↑ +82% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $1,368.60 | ↑ +82% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $1,429.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,482.65 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $1,482.65 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $1,482.65 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $1,482.65 | ↑ +97% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $1,500.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,824.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,824.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,824.80 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,824.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $1,938.85 | ↑ +158% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $1,938.85 | ↑ +158% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $1,996.00 | ↑ +165% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,506.04 | $179.08 – $2,133.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,650.56 | $319.84 – $2,475.84 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,650.56 | $852.79 – $2,475.84 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,981.41 | $262.75 – $2,972.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,506.04 | $156.40 – $2,133.56 |