Ammonia at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$44.63
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.
$255.00
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.
$12.24 with SUPERIOR vs $216.75 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.24 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.48 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $12.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.85 | ↓ -71% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $12.85 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $12.85 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $13.11 | ↓ -71% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $14.28 | ↓ -68% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $14.57 | ↓ -67% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $14.57 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $14.57 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $14.86 | ↓ -67% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $15.01 | ↓ -66% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $15.59 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $15.87 | ↓ -64% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $16.76 | ↓ -62% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $21.13 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $21.86 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $23.01 | ↓ -48% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $23.01 | ↓ -48% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.93 | ↓ -42% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $27.05 | ↓ -39% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $27.54 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.33 | ↓ -37% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $29.14 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $31.72 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $32.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.23 | ↓ -3% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $43.71 | ↓ -2% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $47.35 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $51.14 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $51.14 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $52.16 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $60.17 | ↑ +35% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $140.25 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $142.80 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $155.55 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $216.75 | ↑ +386% |
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Ammonia at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $142.06 | $12.00 – $213.08 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $232.94 | $13.11 – $56.09 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $145.94 | $10.00 – $182.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $142.06 | $12.00 – $213.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $145.94 | $12.00 – $182.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $145.94 | $10.00 – $182.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $142.06 | $8.00 – $213.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $145.94 | $12.00 – $218.91 |