Sterile water/saline, 10 ml at CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont
6025 Metropolitan Drive, Beaumont, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1679557888
$17.92
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.
$54.31
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.
$0.23 with Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas vs $12.66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $0.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HMO | $0.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | HEB | $0.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | PPO | $0.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Traditional | $0.34 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellcare | MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Community Health Choice | Dual MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Arcadian Health Plan | MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $0.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $0.55 | ↓ -97% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $0.55 | ↓ -97% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $0.56 | ↓ -97% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $0.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $0.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $0.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $0.58 | ↓ -97% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $0.58 | ↓ -97% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $0.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $0.74 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $0.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $1.06 | ↓ -94% |
| ADV Cardiovas Specialist | MM | $1.06 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $1.49 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $1.49 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $1.49 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kid KM | $1.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $1.63 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Chip KM | $1.63 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | Star KM | $1.63 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $1.63 | ↓ -91% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $1.63 | ↓ -91% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Star KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Star Plus KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Chip KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice | Star KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerigroup | Star Kids KM | $1.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $4.47 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $4.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $4.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Star KM | $4.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | New Business | $5.81 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $6.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $6.70 | ↓ -63% |
| LSU First Choice Verity | PPO | $7.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | PPO | $8.94 | ↓ -50% |
| Verity HealthNet | PPO | $8.94 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | New Business | $9.23 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $9.68 | ↓ -46% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $9.68 | ↓ -46% |
| Phcs | PPO | $9.68 | ↓ -46% |
| First Health | PPO | $9.68 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | HMO | $10.28 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EPO | $10.28 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | PPO | $10.28 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | POS | $10.28 | ↓ -43% |
| MCT Credit Union | All Plans | $10.43 | ↓ -42% |
| Partners Direct Health | PPO | $10.43 | ↓ -42% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $10.43 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $11.92 | ↓ -33% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $11.92 | ↓ -33% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $11.92 | ↓ -33% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $11.92 | ↓ -33% |
| Verity Healthnet National | PPO | $12.66 | ↓ -29% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Sterile water/saline, 10 ml at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $19.11 | $0.12 – $27.30 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $0.23 – $0.23 |
| CHRISTUS Children's Hospital | San Antonio | not published | $1.17 – $1.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $0.07 – $1.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.07 – $1.16 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $0.22 – $0.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $0.53 – $1.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $0.53 – $1.16 |