Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital
1101 Woodson Drive, Caldwell, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1750377289
$0.61
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.
$3.43
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.
$0.16 with AMERIVANTAGE vs $3.60 with United — 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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| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $0.16 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $0.16 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $0.16 | ↓ -74% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $0.17 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $0.18 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $0.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $0.23 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $0.24 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $0.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.28 | ↓ -54% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $0.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $0.39 | ↓ -36% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.42 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $0.43 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.45 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.45 | ↓ -26% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $0.47 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.55 | ↓ -10% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $0.60 | ↓ -2% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $0.63 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $0.70 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $0.70 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.70 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $0.70 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $0.70 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $0.70 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3.60 | ↑ +490% |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $137.39 | $58.37 – $58.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $508.55 | $3.64 – $48.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $404.30 | $3.64 – $48.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $47.69 | $10.64 – $60.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $354.45 | $3.64 – $48.12 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $9.56 | $5.14 – $18.65 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $10.75 | $1.28 – $5.79 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $483.65 | $3.64 – $48.12 |