Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM
700 Medical Parkway, Brenham, TX · Baylor Scott & White Health · · NPI 1154315307
$85.55
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.
$142.58
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.
$6.50 with Baylor Scott & White Health Plan vs $47.37 with BlueBell Creameries — 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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| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.50 | ↓ -92% |
| American Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.84 | ↓ -92% |
| TriWest | Community Care Network | $6.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Prime Health Services | Worker's Compensation | $7.17 | ↓ -92% |
| CORVEL | Worker's Compensation | $7.17 | ↓ -92% |
| ProCare Advantage | Medicare Advantage | $7.18 | ↓ -92% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare Advantage | $7.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Superior Health Plan | Medicare HMO/Medicare PPO | $7.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Medicare Advantage | $7.18 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $7.66 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Small Group | $8.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Sedgwick | Preferred Network | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| CareWorks fka Rockport | Worker's Compensation | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Injury Management Organization | Med Select Network | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Individual | $8.59 | ↓ -90% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Premier - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 1)/BSWH Employee | $9.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Large Group/BSW Premier Direct to Employer (Rate 2) | $10.70 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Baylor Scott & White Health Plan | BSW Plus - Small Group | $12.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Mark Cuban | Commercial | $12.94 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $26.42 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Premier/High Performance Network/My BlueHealth | $27.87 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Advantage | $28.24 | ↓ -67% |
| MidCoast | Commercial | $28.95 | ↓ -66% |
| QuikTrip | Employee Benefit Plan | $28.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $28.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Imagine Health | Commercial | $30.53 | ↓ -64% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Commercial | $30.53 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | HMO/PPO | $31.05 | ↓ -64% |
| Independent Medical System | Commercial PPO | $31.58 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | Blue Essentials (HMO) | $32.29 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | BlueChoice (PPO) | $34.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Curative | Commercial | $34.21 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Commercial PPO | $36.84 | ↓ -57% |
| First Health | PPO | $36.84 | ↓ -57% |
| HealthSmart | Accel Network | $36.84 | ↓ -57% |
| HealthSmart | Preferred Network | $39.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Private Health Care System | PHCS Network | $39.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Commercial HMO | $42.10 | ↓ -51% |
| BlueBell Creameries | Self Insured | $47.37 | ↓ -45% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $87.49 | $4.53 – $39.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $97.80 | $4.53 – $39.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $87.49 | $4.53 – $39.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $85.55 | $4.85 – $47.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $85.55 | $4.53 – $47.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $97.80 | $4.53 – $47.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $87.49 | $4.53 – $39.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $87.49 | $4.53 – $39.47 |