Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
600 Elizabeth St, Corpus Christi, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1689641680
$56.91
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.
$284.53
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.
$1.75 with Aetna vs $26.83 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | MM | $1.75 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1.82 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $1.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | New Business | $3.22 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kids KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | Star KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $3.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | POS | $3.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | HMO | $3.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PPO | $3.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $3.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $3.62 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $4.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $4.17 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5.63 | ↓ -90% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $5.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $8.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Star KM | $8.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $8.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $11.14 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | New Business | $11.14 | ↓ -80% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $11.14 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $12.53 | ↓ -78% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $13.92 | ↓ -76% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $16.71 | ↓ -71% |
| First Health | PPO | $18.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $18.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $18.87 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $19.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Phcs | PPO | $19.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $19.49 | ↓ -66% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $20.88 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $22.28 | ↓ -61% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $22.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $22.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $22.74 | ↓ -60% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $23.67 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $24.10 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $24.56 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $26.83 | ↓ -53% |
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Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $39.88 | $29.18 – $29.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $31.32 | $2.06 – $11.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $31.32 | $1.74 – $12.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $31.32 | $1.69 – $10.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $31.32 | $2.06 – $11.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $31.32 | $2.06 – $12.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $31.32 | $2.06 – $12.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $31.32 | $2.06 – $12.69 |