Alkaline phosphatase at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital

1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$22.23

Cash price

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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.

$127.00

Gross charge

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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.

$4.35 with SUPERIOR vs $107.95 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
SUPERIOR Medicaid|CHIP $4.35 ↓ -80%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $4.44 ↓ -80%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $4.44 ↓ -80%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $4.57 ↓ -79%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $4.57 ↓ -79%
BCBS Medicaid|STARKIDS $4.57 ↓ -79%
United Commercial|Exchange $4.66 ↓ -79%
PGT Medicare|All Plans $5.08 ↓ -77%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $5.18 ↓ -77%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $5.18 ↓ -77%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $5.18 ↓ -77%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $5.28 ↓ -76%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $5.34 ↓ -76%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $5.54 ↓ -75%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Ref Lab $5.63 ↓ -75%
ACH Commercial|All Plans $5.96 ↓ -73%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $7.51 ↓ -66%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $7.77 ↓ -65%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $8.18 ↓ -63%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STAR $8.18 ↓ -63%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $9.22 ↓ -59%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $9.61 ↓ -57%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $9.79 ↓ -56%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $10.06 ↓ -55%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $10.36 ↓ -53%
Cigna Commercial|Local Plus $11.32 ↓ -49%
Wellpath Commercial|All Plans $11.65 ↓ -48%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $15.43 ↓ -31%
Ellwood Commercial|All Plans $15.54 ↓ -30%
NX Health Commercial|All Plans $16.84 ↓ -24%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $18.18 ↓ -18%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $18.18 ↓ -18%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $18.54 ↓ -17%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $21.39 ↓ -4%
Health Smart Commercial|All Plans $69.85 ↑ +214%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $71.12 ↑ +220%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $77.47 ↑ +248%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $107.95 ↑ +386%

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