Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
600 Elizabeth St, Corpus Christi, TX · Christushealth · · NPI 1689641680
$53.15
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.
$265.74
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.
$1.99 with Superior vs $29.38 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 |
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| Superior | Chip KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star Kids KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Star KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Chip KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Star Plus KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Star KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Star Kids KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Driscoll Children's Health Plan | Chip KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Texas | Star Chip KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | Star Kids KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | Star KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | Foster Care KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior | Star Plus KM | $1.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Chip KM | $2.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Texas Childrens Health Plan | Star Plus KM | $2.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Christus Health | Med Adv MM | $2.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Christus Health | HIX | $3.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Star KM | $4.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Chip KM | $4.98 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | All Payer | $4.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Star Plus KM | $4.98 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | HIX | $6.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerigroup | MM | $6.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Imperial Health Plan | MM | $6.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | New Business | $6.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | New Business | $7.27 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | MM | $7.45 | ↓ -86% |
| Healthcare Highways | PPO | $7.47 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | HMO | $8.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | POS | $8.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | PPO | $8.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Choicecare | $8.30 | ↓ -84% |
| Devoted Health Plan | MM | $8.30 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | PPO | $9.79 | ↓ -82% |
| Naphcare Inc. | RRMB | $9.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthsmart | Accel PPO | $10.79 | ↓ -80% |
| First Health | PPO | $10.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $11.62 | ↓ -78% |
| Phcs | PPO | $11.62 | ↓ -78% |
| Five Point Credit Union | PPO | $11.62 | ↓ -78% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $12.45 | ↓ -77% |
| HealthSmart | PPO | $13.28 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Management Network | PPO | $13.28 | ↓ -75% |
| Provider Select | PPO | $13.28 | ↓ -75% |
| Triwest | VA MM | $14.11 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Blue Advantage HMO | $20.67 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HMO | $24.90 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | HEB | $26.39 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | PPO | $26.89 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas | Traditional | $29.38 | ↓ -45% |
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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper)|discarded drug not administered at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $57.47 | $31.96 – $31.96 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $57.96 | $28.23 – $31.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $19.69 | $6.64 – $19.67 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $10.59 | $6.11 – $39.23 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $22.12 | $12.03 – $54.64 |