Heparin bolus from bag at Covenant Children's Hospital
4015 22nd Pl, Lubbock, TX · Providence · · NPI 1437171568
$56.70
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.
$135.00
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.
$0.52 with Bcbs vs $1.03 with Unitedhealthcare — 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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| Bcbs | Par Traditional | $0.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Bcbs | Blue Essentials Hmo | $0.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Bcbs | Ers Blue Essentials For Healthselect Members Hmo | $0.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Bcbs | Ppo | $0.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Scott And White | Individual Bsw Premier Exchange | $0.56 | ↓ -99% |
| Scott And White | Group Bsw Premier/Covenant Preferred Other Commercial Plan | $0.68 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | New Buisness Other Commercial Plan | $0.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Oap | $0.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1.03 | ↓ -98% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Heparin bolus from bag at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $61.24 | $0.52 – $1.03 |
| Covenant Specialty Hospital | Lubbock | $129.87 | not published |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $182.58 | $0.54 – $0.54 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $15.75 | $0.15 – $7.35 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $53.24 | $0.13 – $54.12 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $180.47 | $0.25 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $53.24 | $0.15 – $54.12 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $53.24 | $0.15 – $54.12 |