Myelography neck spine at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$755.37
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.
$2,289.00
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.
$92.55 with United Healthcare vs $3,247.51 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 | Star Plus KM | $92.55 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $92.55 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $92.55 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $92.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | New Business | $181.04 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $217.93 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | PPO | $231.68 | ↓ -69% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $395.67 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $457.20 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $640.08 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $685.80 | ↓ -9% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $762.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Wellcare | MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $791.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $815.08 | ↑ +8% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $815.08 | ↑ +8% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $830.91 | ↑ +10% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $846.73 | ↑ +12% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $854.65 | ↑ +13% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $854.65 | ↑ +13% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $870.47 | ↑ +15% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $870.47 | ↑ +15% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $870.47 | ↑ +15% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $914.40 | ↑ +21% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $933.35 | ↑ +24% |
| Superior | Star KM | $933.35 | ↑ +24% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $933.35 | ↑ +24% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $933.35 | ↑ +24% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $933.35 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | New Business | $944.88 | ↑ +25% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Molina | Star KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $980.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $989.35 | ↑ +31% |
| Phcs | PPO | $990.60 | ↑ +31% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $990.60 | ↑ +31% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $990.60 | ↑ +31% |
| First Health | PPO | $990.60 | ↑ +31% |
| Aetna | POS | $1,051.56 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | EPO | $1,051.56 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | PPO | $1,051.56 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | HMO | $1,051.56 | ↑ +39% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $1,066.80 | ↑ +41% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $1,066.80 | ↑ +41% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $1,066.80 | ↑ +41% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $1,107.88 | ↑ +47% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $1,219.20 | ↑ +61% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $1,219.20 | ↑ +61% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $1,219.20 | ↑ +61% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $1,219.20 | ↑ +61% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $1,295.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $1,582.68 | ↑ +110% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $1,582.68 | ↑ +110% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $1,960.76 | ↑ +160% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $2,750.51 | ↑ +264% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $2,750.51 | ↑ +264% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $3,056.88 | ↑ +305% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $3,247.51 | ↑ +330% |
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Myelography neck spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $875.40 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,088.80 | $224.11 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,133.23 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $875.40 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,088.80 | $120.12 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,088.80 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,133.23 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $875.40 | $112.26 – $1,983.49 |