Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital
1101 Woodson Drive, Caldwell, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1750377289
$184.45
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.
$1,054.00
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.
$76.12 with BCBS vs $2,888.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $76.12 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $77.65 | ↓ -58% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $78.41 | ↓ -57% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $81.45 | ↓ -56% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $86.50 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $101.73 | ↓ -45% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $110.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $114.18 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $122.07 | ↓ -34% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $135.50 | ↓ -27% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $166.08 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $190.30 | ↑ +3% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $207.60 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $211.06 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $221.44 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $221.44 | ↑ +20% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $228.36 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $269.88 | ↑ +46% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $294.10 | ↑ +59% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $311.40 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $346.00 | ↑ +88% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $469.48 | ↑ +155% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $478.87 | ↑ +160% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $478.87 | ↑ +160% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $492.95 | ↑ +167% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $492.95 | ↑ +167% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $591.54 | ↑ +221% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $882.71 | ↑ +379% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $889.02 | ↑ +382% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $945.77 | ↑ +413% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,040.34 | ↑ +464% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,093.89 | ↑ +493% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,117.36 | ↑ +506% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +1052% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +1466% |
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Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,186.53 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $4,231.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,186.53 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,186.53 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $5,077.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |