Observation per hour at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$53.79
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.
$163.00
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.
$13.00 with United Healthcare vs $4,626.00 with United Healthcare — 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 | Chip KM | $13.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $13.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $13.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $13.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $14.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $14.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $14.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $14.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior | Star KM | $14.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $15.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $19.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $27.30 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | MM | $31.20 | ↓ -42% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $39.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $39.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Molina | Star KM | $39.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | New Business | $50.70 | ↓ -6% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $52.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $52.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $58.50 | ↑ +9% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $65.00 | ↑ +21% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $65.00 | ↑ +21% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $65.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $78.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $78.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Cigna | PPO | $78.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | New Business | $80.60 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $84.50 | ↑ +57% |
| First Health | PPO | $84.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Phcs | PPO | $84.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $84.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | PPO | $89.70 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | HMO | $89.70 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | EPO | $89.70 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | POS | $89.70 | ↑ +67% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $91.00 | ↑ +69% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $91.00 | ↑ +69% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $104.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $104.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $104.00 | ↑ +93% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $104.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $110.50 | ↑ +105% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $110.50 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $174.00 | ↑ +223% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $177.00 | ↑ +229% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $193.00 | ↑ +259% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $193.00 | ↑ +259% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $216.00 | ↑ +302% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $228.00 | ↑ +324% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1,526.00 | ↑ +2737% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $3,219.00 | ↑ +5884% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $4,626.00 | ↑ +8500% |
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Observation per hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $644.35 | $489.80 – $489.80 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $107.81 | $30.55 – $390.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $82.93 | $17.07 – $124.40 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $82.93 | $16.59 – $384.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $107.81 | $28.75 – $297.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $82.93 | $26.62 – $469.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $82.93 | $42.85 – $124.40 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $82.93 | $27.64 – $384.20 |