Hydroxyurea 500 mg at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital - Beeville
1500 E Houston St, Beeville, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1447228747
$4.24
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.
$21.22
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.
$1.69 with United Healthcare vs $18.03 with Triwest — 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 | Star Kids KM | $1.69 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $1.69 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $1.69 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $1.69 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $1.99 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $2.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $2.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $2.53 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $2.67 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $2.83 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Superior | Star KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $2.97 | ↓ -30% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $3.18 | ↓ -25% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $3.18 | ↓ -25% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $3.18 | ↓ -25% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $4.45 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | MM | $4.88 | ↑ +15% |
| Molina | Star KM | $6.36 | ↑ +50% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $6.36 | ↑ +50% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $6.36 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $6.36 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $6.36 | ↑ +50% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $8.48 | ↑ +100% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $8.48 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | New Business | $8.48 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $9.54 | ↑ +125% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $10.61 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna | PPO | $12.30 | ↑ +190% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $12.73 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | New Business | $13.15 | ↑ +210% |
| First Health | PPO | $13.79 | ↑ +225% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $13.79 | ↑ +225% |
| Aetna | HMO | $14.64 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | PPO | $14.64 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | POS | $14.64 | ↑ +245% |
| Phcs | PPO | $14.85 | ↑ +250% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $14.85 | ↑ +250% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $14.85 | ↑ +250% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $15.91 | ↑ +275% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $16.97 | ↑ +300% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $16.97 | ↑ +300% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $16.97 | ↑ +300% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $18.03 | ↑ +325% |
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Hydroxyurea 500 mg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $6.80 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $55.92 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $52.10 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $54.19 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $51.84 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $35.37 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $55.00 | $0.99 – $9.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $49.92 | $0.99 – $9.84 |