Brace knee hing pat open med at St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital
1101 Woodson Drive, Caldwell, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1750377289
$25.20
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.
$144.00
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.
$31.68 with BCBS vs $144.00 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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| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $31.68 | ↑ +26% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $32.32 | ↑ +28% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $32.64 | ↑ +30% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $33.90 | ↑ +35% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $36.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $42.34 | ↑ +68% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $45.94 | ↑ +82% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $47.52 | ↑ +89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $50.81 | ↑ +102% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $56.40 | ↑ +124% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $69.12 | ↑ +174% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $70.56 | ↑ +180% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $79.20 | ↑ +214% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $86.40 | ↑ +243% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $87.84 | ↑ +249% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $92.16 | ↑ +266% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $92.16 | ↑ +266% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $95.04 | ↑ +277% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $112.32 | ↑ +346% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $122.40 | ↑ +386% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $129.60 | ↑ +414% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $144.00 | ↑ +471% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Brace knee hing pat open med at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $25.20 | $18.35 – $144.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $25.20 | $70.56 – $144.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $25.20 | $52.22 – $159.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $162.02 – $355.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $162.02 – $355.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $162.02 – $355.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $162.02 – $355.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $162.02 – $355.46 |