Knee MRI (with contrast) at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$3,021.48
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.
$9,156.00
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.
$361.53 with United Healthcare vs $7,782.60 with Verity Healthnet National — 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 | $361.53 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $361.53 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $361.53 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $361.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $395.67 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellcare | MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $791.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $815.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $815.08 | ↓ -73% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $830.91 | ↓ -72% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $854.65 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $854.65 | ↓ -72% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $870.47 | ↓ -71% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $870.47 | ↓ -71% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $870.47 | ↓ -71% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $933.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $933.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $933.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $933.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior | Star KM | $933.35 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Star KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $980.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $989.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $1,107.88 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $1,185.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | New Business | $1,226.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | New Business | $1,228.00 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $1,304.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,364.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,364.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,364.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,364.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,370.00 | ↓ -55% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $1,390.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | PPO | $1,568.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $1,582.68 | ↓ -48% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $1,582.68 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $2,050.00 | ↓ -32% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $2,144.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $2,217.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $2,251.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $2,372.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $3,111.35 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $3,485.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $3,485.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $3,873.87 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $4,118.96 | ↑ +36% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $4,578.00 | ↑ +52% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $5,493.60 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | PPO | $5,951.40 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $5,951.40 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $5,951.40 | ↑ +97% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $7,324.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $7,324.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $7,324.80 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $7,324.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $7,782.60 | ↑ +158% |
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Knee MRI (with contrast) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,394.58 | $323.44 – $2,993.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,201.09 | $453.06 – $3,301.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,551.43 | $323.44 – $3,189.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,394.58 | $323.44 – $2,993.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,201.09 | $346.08 – $3,301.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,201.09 | $323.44 – $3,301.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,551.43 | $323.44 – $3,827.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,394.58 | $323.44 – $2,993.22 |