#fecal-sodium at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM

700 Medical Parkway, Brenham, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1154315307

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Jun 12, 2026 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$52.72

Cash price

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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.

$87.87

Gross charge

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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.

$2.63 with Baylor Scott & White Health Plan vs $30.67 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan Medicare Advantage $2.63 ↓ -95%
American Health Plan Medicare Advantage $2.77 ↓ -95%
TriWest Community Care Network $2.77 ↓ -95%
HealthSpring Medicare Advantage $2.91 ↓ -94%
Superior Health Plan Medicare HMO/Medicare PPO $2.91 ↓ -94%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage $2.91 ↓ -94%
ProCare Advantage Medicare Advantage $2.91 ↓ -94%
CORVEL Worker's Compensation $2.91 ↓ -94%
Prime Health Services Worker's Compensation $2.91 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $3.11 ↓ -94%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Small Group $3.33 ↓ -94%
Injury Management Organization Med Select Network $3.44 ↓ -93%
Sedgwick Preferred Network $3.44 ↓ -93%
CareWorks fka Rockport Worker's Compensation $3.44 ↓ -93%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Individual $3.48 ↓ -93%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Small Group $4.99 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicaid/CHIP $7.13 ↓ -86%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee $9.10 ↓ -83%
Baylor Scott & White Health Plan BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) $10.70 ↓ -80%
Cigna Local Plus $10.71 ↓ -80%
Mark Cuban Commercial $11.66 ↓ -78%
Aetna Commercial $11.73 ↓ -78%
MidCoast Commercial $11.73 ↓ -78%
QuikTrip Employee Benefit Plan $11.73 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Commercial $12.00 ↓ -77%
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Commercial $12.37 ↓ -77%
Imagine Health Commercial $12.37 ↓ -77%
Cigna HMO/PPO $12.58 ↓ -76%
Independent Medical System Commercial PPO $12.80 ↓ -76%
Curative Commercial $13.86 ↓ -74%
Humana Commercial PPO $14.93 ↓ -72%
HealthSmart Accel Network $14.93 ↓ -72%
First Health PPO $14.93 ↓ -72%
HealthSmart Preferred Network $16.00 ↓ -70%
Private Health Care System PHCS Network $16.00 ↓ -70%
Humana Commercial HMO $17.06 ↓ -68%
BlueBell Creameries Self Insured $19.20 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth $25.13 ↓ -52%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Advantage $25.47 ↓ -52%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Essentials (HMO) $29.11 ↓ -45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield BlueChoice (PPO) $30.67 ↓ -42%

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#fecal-sodium at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Dallas $42.21 $4.08 – $16.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA Suite 110 $49.45 $4.08 – $16.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL Frisco $42.21 $4.08 – $16.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION College Station $52.72 $4.37 – $19.20
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL Temple $52.72 $4.08 – $19.20
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK Cedar Park $49.45 $4.08 – $19.20
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH Fort Worth $42.21 $4.08 – $16.00
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE Grapevine $42.21 $4.08 – $16.00

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