Inj proc myelogram lumbar at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$265.65
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.
$805.00
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.
$74.50 with United Healthcare vs $4,989.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $74.50 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $74.50 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $74.50 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $74.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $81.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Star KM | $81.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $81.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $81.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $81.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $89.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $111.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $156.45 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | MM | $178.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $223.50 | ↓ -16% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $223.50 | ↓ -16% |
| Molina | Star KM | $223.50 | ↓ -16% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $298.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $298.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $372.50 | ↑ +40% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $372.50 | ↑ +40% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $372.50 | ↑ +40% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $372.50 | ↑ +40% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $447.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $447.00 | ↑ +68% |
| First Health | PPO | $484.25 | ↑ +82% |
| Phcs | PPO | $484.25 | ↑ +82% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $484.25 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $484.25 | ↑ +82% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $596.00 | ↑ +124% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $596.00 | ↑ +124% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $596.00 | ↑ +124% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $596.00 | ↑ +124% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $599.00 | ↑ +125% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $633.25 | ↑ +138% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $633.25 | ↑ +138% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1,338.00 | ↑ +404% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,741.00 | ↑ +555% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,934.00 | ↑ +628% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,934.00 | ↑ +628% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,934.00 | ↑ +628% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,934.00 | ↑ +628% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $2,885.00 | ↑ +986% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $3,829.00 | ↑ +1341% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $4,020.00 | ↑ +1413% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $4,989.00 | ↑ +1778% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,267.73 | $359.19 – $1,795.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $266.48 | $54.85 – $399.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $317.24 | $63.45 – $396.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,267.73 | $338.06 – $1,795.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $266.48 | $85.00 – $399.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $266.48 | $137.68 – $399.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $317.24 | $71.00 – $475.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,267.73 | $338.06 – $1,795.96 |