Betamethasone acetate and sodium phos 6 mg/ml suspension for injection at St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital
100 West Cross Street, Madisonville, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1780731737
$5.69
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.
$32.48
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.
$1.15 with PGT vs $12.39 with United — 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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| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1.15 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1.17 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1.17 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1.20 | ↓ -79% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1.21 | ↓ -79% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.27 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3.12 | ↓ -45% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3.37 | ↓ -41% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $3.51 | ↓ -38% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3.78 | ↓ -34% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $4.95 | ↓ -13% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5.40 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.49 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.76 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $5.94 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $7.51 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $7.63 | ↑ +34% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $7.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $8.36 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9.00 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $9.00 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $9.00 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $9.00 | ↑ +58% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.39 | ↑ +118% |
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