Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton)
1201 Hill Rd, Smithville, TX · Ascension · · NPI 1154612638
$55.98
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.
$155.50
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.
$0.47 with BCBS CHIP/CHIP PERINATE vs $0.88 with CHAMPVA — 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 CHIP/CHIP PERINATE | 3600_BLUE CROSS CHIP/STAR KIDS (SMV) INPATIENT 20240901 | $0.47 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS CHIP/CHIP PERINATE | 4174_BLUE CROSS CHIP/STAR KIDS (SMV) OUTPATIENT 20241201 | $0.47 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS STAR | 3699_CHIRP BLUE CROSS STAR (SMV) INPATIENT 20240901 | $0.47 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS STAR | 4225_CHIRP BLUE CROSS STAR (SMV) OUTPATIENT 20241201 | $0.47 | ↓ -99% |
| CHAMPVA | 1135_CHAMPVA REST_TX 20180301 | $0.88 | ↓ -98% |
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Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $173.84 | $0.96 – $4,826.69 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $129.87 | $0.94 – $2.93 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $49.33 | $0.23 – $60.15 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $53.07 | $0.54 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $49.33 | $0.27 – $60.15 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $49.33 | $0.27 – $60.15 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $49.33 | $0.27 – $60.15 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $40.90 | $0.24 – $75.95 |