Brace knee support neoprene padded open patella med at St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital
1101 Woodson Drive, Caldwell, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1750377289
$16.45
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.
$94.00
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.
$20.68 with BCBS vs $94.00 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 | $20.68 | ↑ +26% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $21.10 | ↑ +28% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $21.31 | ↑ +30% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $22.13 | ↑ +35% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $23.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $27.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $29.99 | ↑ +82% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $31.02 | ↑ +89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $33.17 | ↑ +102% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.82 | ↑ +124% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $45.12 | ↑ +174% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $46.06 | ↑ +180% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $51.70 | ↑ +214% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $56.40 | ↑ +243% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $57.34 | ↑ +249% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $60.16 | ↑ +266% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $60.16 | ↑ +266% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $62.04 | ↑ +277% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.32 | ↑ +346% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $79.90 | ↑ +386% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $84.60 | ↑ +414% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $94.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Brace knee support neoprene padded open patella med at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $436.18 | not published |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $16.45 | $11.98 – $94.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $16.45 | $46.06 – $94.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $16.45 | $34.09 – $104.34 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $436.18 | $122.90 – $129.66 |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | $436.18 | not published |
| Covenant Hospital Levelland | Levelland | $436.18 | not published |
| Covenant Specialty Hospital | Lubbock | $436.18 | not published |