Esophagoscopy retro balloon at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$814.77
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.
$2,469.00
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.
$456.36 with United Healthcare vs $8,756.00 with Cigna — 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 | Chip KM | $456.36 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $456.36 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $456.36 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $456.36 | ↓ -44% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $564.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $564.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Superior | Star KM | $564.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $564.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $564.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Star KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $593.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $598.87 | ↓ -26% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $1,234.50 | ↑ +52% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $1,481.40 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $1,604.85 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,604.85 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $1,604.85 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $1,604.85 | ↑ +97% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $1,863.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Wellcare | MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $1,900.06 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,935.00 | ↑ +137% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $1,957.06 | ↑ +140% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $1,957.06 | ↑ +140% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,975.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,975.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,975.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,975.20 | ↑ +142% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $1,995.06 | ↑ +145% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $2,033.06 | ↑ +150% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $2,052.06 | ↑ +152% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $2,052.06 | ↑ +152% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $2,090.07 | ↑ +157% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $2,090.07 | ↑ +157% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $2,090.07 | ↑ +157% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $2,098.65 | ↑ +158% |
| Aetna | HMO | $2,151.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | POS | $2,151.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | PPO | $2,151.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | EPO | $2,151.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $2,164.79 | ↑ +166% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $2,164.79 | ↑ +166% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $2,336.00 | ↑ +187% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $2,398.40 | ↑ +194% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $2,569.71 | ↑ +215% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $2,660.08 | ↑ +226% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $2,663.15 | ↑ +227% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $3,215.00 | ↑ +295% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $3,800.12 | ↑ +366% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $3,800.12 | ↑ +366% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $3,829.00 | ↑ +370% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $4,020.00 | ↑ +393% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $4,115.00 | ↑ +405% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $4,164.00 | ↑ +411% |
| Cigna | New Business | $6,783.00 | ↑ +733% |
| Cigna | PPO | $8,756.00 | ↑ +975% |
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Esophagoscopy retro balloon at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon | San Antonio | $3,702.27 | $564.97 – $3,562.48 |
| Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital | The Woodlands | $578.00 | $1,927.65 – $3,855.30 |
| Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital | Cypress | $578.00 | $1,927.65 – $3,758.92 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | Houston | $578.00 | $1,927.65 – $3,758.92 |
| Houston Methodist Continuing Care Hospital | Katy | $578.00 | $3,894.00 – $7,542.00 |
| Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital | Nassau Bay | $578.00 | $903.29 – $3,758.92 |
| Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $578.00 | $1,927.65 – $3,758.92 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | Houston | $578.00 | $1,927.65 – $7,710.61 |