5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
600 Elizabeth St, Corpus Christi, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1689641680
$15.43
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.
$77.16
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.
$8.56 with Superior vs $60.67 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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| Superior | Star Kids KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kids KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Superior | Star KM | $8.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $9.27 | ↓ -40% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $9.27 | ↓ -40% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $10.70 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $13.02 | ↓ -16% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $14.98 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $15.69 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | MM | $16.41 | ↑ +6% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $16.63 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $16.95 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $18.51 | ↑ +20% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $21.41 | ↑ +39% |
| Molina | Star KM | $21.41 | ↑ +39% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $21.41 | ↑ +39% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $21.41 | ↑ +39% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $21.41 | ↑ +39% |
| Cigna | New Business | $27.83 | ↑ +80% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $28.55 | ↑ +85% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $28.55 | ↑ +85% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $32.12 | ↑ +108% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $35.69 | ↑ +131% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $35.69 | ↑ +131% |
| Cigna | PPO | $41.40 | ↑ +168% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $42.82 | ↑ +178% |
| Aetna | New Business | $44.25 | ↑ +187% |
| First Health | PPO | $46.39 | ↑ +201% |
| Phcs | PPO | $46.39 | ↑ +201% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $46.39 | ↑ +201% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $46.39 | ↑ +201% |
| Aetna | POS | $49.25 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | HMO | $49.25 | ↑ +219% |
| Aetna | PPO | $49.25 | ↑ +219% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $49.96 | ↑ +224% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $53.53 | ↑ +247% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $57.10 | ↑ +270% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $57.10 | ↑ +270% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $57.10 | ↑ +270% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $60.67 | ↑ +293% |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital - Beeville | Beeville | $15.43 | $15.48 – $15.48 |
| CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Jasper Memorial | Jasper | $48.39 | $23.06 – $23.06 |
| CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon | San Antonio | $17.35 | $7.77 – $13.44 |
| CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont | Beaumont | $48.39 | $20.40 – $20.40 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL | Argyle | $112.88 | $18.04 – $48.53 |
| MEDICAL CITY LEWISVILLE HOSPITAL | LEWISVILLE | $145.72 | $18.04 – $48.53 |
| MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | SAGINAW | $377.22 | $18.04 – $48.53 |
| MEDICAL CITY FRISCO HOSPITAL | Frisco | $39.82 | $17.31 – $48.53 |