Adenovirus assay w/optic at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$3.68
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.
$21.00
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.
$11.55 with Health Smart vs $68.25 with NX Health — 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $11.55 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $11.76 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $12.81 | ↑ +248% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $17.85 | ↑ +385% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $18.28 | ↑ +397% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $18.65 | ↑ +407% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $18.65 | ↑ +407% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $19.19 | ↑ +421% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $19.19 | ↑ +421% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $19.19 | ↑ +421% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $19.58 | ↑ +432% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $20.58 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $21.00 | ↑ +471% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $21.42 | ↑ +482% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $21.63 | ↑ +488% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $22.47 | ↑ +511% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $24.15 | ↑ +556% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $30.45 | ↑ +727% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $31.50 | ↑ +756% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $34.37 | ↑ +834% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $34.37 | ↑ +834% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.38 | ↑ +916% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $40.40 | ↑ +998% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $41.13 | ↑ +1018% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $42.00 | ↑ +1041% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $47.25 | ↑ +1184% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $47.55 | ↑ +1192% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +1612% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $64.82 | ↑ +1661% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.25 | ↑ +1755% |
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Adenovirus assay w/optic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $98.51 | $12.00 – $147.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $98.51 | $12.00 – $147.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $98.51 | $12.00 – $123.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $98.51 | $8.00 – $147.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $98.51 | $12.00 – $147.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $98.51 | $18.28 – $123.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $98.51 | $12.00 – $147.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $98.51 | $12.00 – $147.76 |