Zoledronic acid 4 mg/5 ml intravenous solution at St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital
100 West Cross Street, Madisonville, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1780731737
$14.70
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.
$84.00
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.
$2.87 with PGT vs $22.50 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 | $2.87 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2.93 | ↓ -80% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $2.93 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $2.99 | ↓ -80% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $3.02 | ↓ -79% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $4.25 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4.39 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $5.67 | ↓ -61% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.43 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $7.80 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $8.78 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $9.32 | ↓ -37% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $9.45 | ↓ -36% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.51 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.38 | ↓ -16% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $13.73 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.40 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $14.85 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $15.19 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $15.59 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $17.82 | ↑ +21% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $19.13 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.25 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $22.50 | ↑ +53% |
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