Pulse ox single at St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital
1101 Woodson Drive, Caldwell, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1750377289
$33.43
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.
$191.00
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.
$5.01 with BCBS-TX vs $447.00 with United — 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-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $5.01 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $5.90 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $6.25 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $6.96 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.46 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.65 | ↓ -71% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.75 | ↓ -71% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $10.13 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.75 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $13.72 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $14.19 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $15.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $20.64 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $21.07 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $23.65 | ↓ -29% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.80 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $26.23 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.52 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $27.52 | ↓ -18% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $28.38 | ↓ -15% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.54 | ↑ +0% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $36.55 | ↑ +9% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $38.70 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $43.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $447.00 | ↑ +1237% |
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Pulse ox single at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $244.08 | $9.70 – $9.70 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $112.05 | $7.74 – $158.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $95.02 | $7.61 – $142.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $101.37 | $7.61 – $126.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $112.05 | $5.90 – $158.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $95.02 | $9.30 – $142.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $95.02 | $49.09 – $142.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $101.37 | $7.61 – $152.06 |