Injection, famotidine, 20 mg at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
600 Elizabeth St, Corpus Christi, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1689641680
$4.12
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.
$20.61
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.
$1.44 with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas vs $17.51 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $1.44 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $1.74 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $1.84 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $1.88 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $2.05 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kids KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Superior | Chip KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Superior | Star KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $2.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $2.67 | ↓ -35% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $2.67 | ↓ -35% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $3.09 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $3.32 | ↓ -19% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $4.32 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | MM | $4.74 | ↑ +15% |
| Molina | Star KM | $6.18 | ↑ +50% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $6.18 | ↑ +50% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $6.18 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $6.18 | ↑ +50% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $6.18 | ↑ +50% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $8.24 | ↑ +100% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $8.24 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | New Business | $8.24 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $9.27 | ↑ +125% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $10.30 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna | PPO | $11.95 | ↑ +190% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $12.36 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | New Business | $12.77 | ↑ +210% |
| First Health | PPO | $13.39 | ↑ +225% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $13.39 | ↑ +225% |
| Aetna | HMO | $14.22 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | PPO | $14.22 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | POS | $14.22 | ↑ +245% |
| Phcs | PPO | $14.42 | ↑ +250% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $14.42 | ↑ +250% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $14.42 | ↑ +250% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $15.45 | ↑ +275% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $16.48 | ↑ +300% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $16.48 | ↑ +300% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $16.48 | ↑ +300% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $17.51 | ↑ +325% |
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Injection, famotidine, 20 mg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $59.37 | $16.46 – $16.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $33.06 | $1.14 – $16.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $55.79 | $1.14 – $16.46 |
| CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital - Beeville | Beeville | $4.17 | $1.72 – $3.32 |
| CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Emergency Center - Alon | San Antonio | $8.74 | $0.88 – $3.21 |
| CHRISTUS Health - West Beaumont | Beaumont | $4.65 | $2.26 – $3.84 |
| MEDICAL CITY ARGYLE HOSPITAL | Argyle | $61.77 | $2.00 – $12.09 |
| MEDICAL CITY ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | SAGINAW | $28.74 | $2.00 – $12.09 |