Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital
100 West Cross Street, Madisonville, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1780731737
$14.99
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.
$85.61
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.
$10.91 with PGT vs $85.61 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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| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $10.91 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $11.13 | ↓ -26% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.13 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $11.36 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $11.40 | ↓ -24% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $11.47 | ↓ -23% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $11.91 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $12.58 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $14.56 | ↓ -3% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $16.14 | ↑ +8% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $16.70 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $18.59 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $19.08 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.76 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.58 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $21.81 | ↑ +45% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $28.26 | ↑ +89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $29.67 | ↑ +98% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $33.39 | ↑ +123% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $35.96 | ↑ +140% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.18 | ↑ +141% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $47.09 | ↑ +214% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $51.37 | ↑ +243% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $52.23 | ↑ +248% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.80 | ↑ +266% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $56.51 | ↑ +277% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $72.77 | ↑ +385% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $77.05 | ↑ +414% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $85.61 | ↑ +471% |
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Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $254.73 | $31.80 – $31.80 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $274.51 | $30.89 – $39.06 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $32.45 | $11.29 – $92.92 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $165.90 | $9.00 – $344.93 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $99.46 | $7.43 – $89.11 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $9.38 | $5.46 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $99.46 | $9.00 – $89.11 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $99.46 | $9.00 – $89.11 |