Inj meropenem (wg crit care) at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
600 Elizabeth St, Corpus Christi, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1689641680
$114.19
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.
$570.96
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.
$1.60 with United Healthcare vs $228.38 with HealthSmart — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | HIX | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Superior | Star Plus MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Allwell | Superior Health MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellcare | MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Gold Choice MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Gold Plus MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry | First Health MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Healthspring | MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Medicare Adv MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | BH MM | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Provider Partners Health Plan | MM | $1.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Texas Independence Health Plan | MM | $1.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Shared Health Insurance Company | MM | $1.68 | ↓ -99% |
| US Imaging Network | PPO | $1.71 | ↓ -99% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $1.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $1.73 | ↓ -98% |
| American Health Medicare | Advantage MM | $1.76 | ↓ -98% |
| ProCare Advantage | MM | $1.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $1.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $2.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | New Business | $2.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $3.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | HMO | $3.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | POS | $3.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | PPO | $3.28 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $4.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | PPO | $5.16 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $5.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $5.66 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $5.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $6.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kids KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Star KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $34.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $37.11 | ↓ -68% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $37.11 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $85.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Star KM | $85.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $85.64 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | New Business | $114.19 | ↑ +0% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $128.46 | ↑ +12% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $142.74 | ↑ +25% |
| First Health | PPO | $185.56 | ↑ +63% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $185.56 | ↑ +63% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $199.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Phcs | PPO | $199.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $199.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $214.11 | ↑ +88% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $228.38 | ↑ +100% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $228.38 | ↑ +100% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $228.38 | ↑ +100% |
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Inj meropenem (wg crit care) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $136.35 | $1.60 – $3.92 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $239.04 | $5.68 – $5.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $245.43 | $1.57 – $3.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $219.13 | $1.60 – $3.92 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $24.84 | $15.62 – $70.97 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $104.12 | $97.18 – $624.68 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $24.84 | $15.62 – $70.97 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $24.84 | $15.62 – $70.97 |