Smear wet mount at St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital
1101 Woodson Drive, Caldwell, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1750377289
$24.50
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.
$140.00
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.
$5.24 with United vs $126.00 with Multiplan — 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $5.24 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $5.70 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -76% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.94 | ↓ -76% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -76% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6.23 | ↓ -75% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.97 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.13 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.13 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.37 | ↓ -66% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $8.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -64% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $10.04 | ↓ -59% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10.36 | ↓ -58% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $11.64 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $12.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $17.46 | ↓ -29% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $18.57 | ↓ -24% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $18.97 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $20.43 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $20.43 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $20.84 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $24.04 | ↓ -2% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $41.16 | ↑ +68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $49.40 | ↑ +102% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $77.00 | ↑ +214% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $84.00 | ↑ +243% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $85.40 | ↑ +249% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.60 | ↑ +266% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $89.60 | ↑ +266% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $109.20 | ↑ +346% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $119.00 | ↑ +386% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $126.00 | ↑ +414% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $129.55 | $5.24 – $22.41 |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $68.63 | $8.53 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.11 | $4.89 – $78.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $68.63 | $5.23 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $68.63 | $4.89 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $63.11 | $4.89 – $94.66 |