Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital
100 West Cross Street, Madisonville, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1780731737
$28.53
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.
$163.00
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.
$16.74 with United vs $163.00 with BCBS-TX — 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $16.74 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $18.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $20.76 | ↓ -27% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $20.77 | ↓ -27% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $21.19 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $21.19 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $21.62 | ↓ -24% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $21.83 | ↓ -23% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $22.68 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.62 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $30.49 | ↑ +7% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $30.73 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $31.30 | ↑ +10% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $31.79 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $35.77 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $41.08 | ↑ +44% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $56.48 | ↑ +98% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $60.93 | ↑ +114% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $63.57 | ↑ +123% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $68.46 | ↑ +140% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.87 | ↑ +141% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $89.65 | ↑ +214% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $97.80 | ↑ +243% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $99.43 | ↑ +249% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $104.32 | ↑ +266% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $107.58 | ↑ +277% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $138.55 | ↑ +386% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $146.70 | ↑ +414% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $163.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $36.14 | $52.17 – $52.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $567.00 | $16.20 – $130.91 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $195.36 | $16.20 – $130.91 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $126.50 | $50.68 – $73.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $131.63 | $17.23 – $130.91 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $29.36 | $12.20 – $62.73 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $15.27 | $14.81 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $29.36 | $13.81 – $62.73 |