Specimen fat stain at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$191.73
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.
$581.00
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.
$2.94 with Texas Healthspring vs $493.85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $2.94 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $5.29 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $5.29 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $5.34 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $5.34 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $5.34 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $5.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Superior | Star KM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $5.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $6.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $6.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Star KM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $6.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $6.23 | ↓ -97% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $6.29 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $6.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $6.35 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $8.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $10.58 | ↓ -94% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $11.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $11.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $13.64 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | New Business | $20.68 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $22.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $25.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $25.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | PPO | $26.46 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $28.17 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $29.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $261.45 | ↑ +36% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $290.50 | ↑ +52% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $348.60 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | New Business | $360.22 | ↑ +88% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $377.65 | ↑ +97% |
| First Health | PPO | $377.65 | ↑ +97% |
| Phcs | PPO | $377.65 | ↑ +97% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $377.65 | ↑ +97% |
| Aetna | EPO | $400.89 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | PPO | $400.89 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | HMO | $400.89 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | POS | $400.89 | ↑ +109% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $406.70 | ↑ +112% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $406.70 | ↑ +112% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $464.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $464.80 | ↑ +142% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $464.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $464.80 | ↑ +142% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $493.85 | ↑ +158% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $28.52 | $5.87 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $27.68 | $4.94 – $34.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $28.52 | $5.29 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $28.52 | $4.94 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $27.68 | $4.94 – $41.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $28.52 | $4.94 – $35.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $28.52 | $4.94 – $42.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $27.68 | $4.94 – $41.53 |