Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$1,556.61
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.
$4,717.00
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.
$33.08 with United Healthcare vs $534.62 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 | Chip KM | $33.08 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $33.08 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $33.08 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $33.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $53.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $77.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | New Business | $81.37 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $100.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | PPO | $104.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellcare | MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $106.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $109.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $109.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $111.84 | ↓ -93% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $113.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $115.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $115.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $117.16 | ↓ -92% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $117.16 | ↓ -92% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $117.16 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior | Star KM | $134.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $134.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $134.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $134.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $134.67 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $141.12 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Star KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $141.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $142.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $149.11 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $151.20 | ↓ -90% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $168.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $201.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | New Business | $208.32 | ↓ -87% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $213.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $213.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $218.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $218.40 | ↓ -86% |
| First Health | PPO | $218.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Phcs | PPO | $218.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | PPO | $231.84 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | POS | $231.84 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | EPO | $231.84 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | HMO | $231.84 | ↓ -85% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $235.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $235.20 | ↓ -85% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $235.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $268.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $268.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $268.80 | ↓ -83% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $268.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $285.60 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $322.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $452.80 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $452.80 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $503.24 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $534.62 | ↓ -66% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $620.07 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $384.07 | $79.05 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $474.69 | $40.10 – $593.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $384.07 | $42.91 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $384.07 | $40.10 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $474.69 | $40.10 – $712.03 |