17-ketosteroids at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$8.05
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.
$46.00
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.
$10.75 with SUPERIOR vs $46.00 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $10.75 | ↑ +34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.96 | ↑ +36% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $10.96 | ↑ +36% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $11.29 | ↑ +40% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $11.29 | ↑ +40% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $11.29 | ↑ +40% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $11.52 | ↑ +43% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $12.55 | ↑ +56% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +59% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +59% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $13.06 | ↑ +62% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $13.18 | ↑ +64% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $13.70 | ↑ +70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $13.94 | ↑ +73% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $14.72 | ↑ +83% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $18.56 | ↑ +131% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $19.20 | ↑ +139% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $20.21 | ↑ +151% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $20.21 | ↑ +151% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.78 | ↑ +183% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $23.76 | ↑ +195% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $24.19 | ↑ +200% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.89 | ↑ +209% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $25.30 | ↑ +214% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $25.60 | ↑ +218% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $25.76 | ↑ +220% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $27.94 | ↑ +247% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $28.06 | ↑ +249% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $28.80 | ↑ +258% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.09 | ↑ +373% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $38.40 | ↑ +377% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.10 | ↑ +386% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $41.60 | ↑ +417% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $44.93 | ↑ +458% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $44.93 | ↑ +458% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $45.82 | ↑ +469% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $46.00 | ↑ +471% |
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17-ketosteroids at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $91.01 | $11.50 – $136.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $91.01 | $12.00 – $136.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $91.01 | $10.75 – $113.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $91.01 | $8.00 – $136.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $91.01 | $10.75 – $136.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $91.01 | $10.75 – $113.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $91.01 | $10.75 – $136.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $91.01 | $10.75 – $136.51 |