Artery x-rays chest at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$580.65
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.
$3,318.00
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.
$165.40 with SUPERIOR vs $10,245.95 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $165.40 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $168.71 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $168.71 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $173.67 | ↓ -70% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $173.67 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $173.67 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $179.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $296.71 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $310.95 | ↓ -46% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $310.95 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $351.00 | ↓ -40% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $365.53 | ↓ -37% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $372.15 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $405.90 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,824.90 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,858.08 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,023.98 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,820.30 | ↑ +386% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,847.06 | ↑ +390% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $3,089.55 | ↑ +432% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +443% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +443% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +454% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $3,318.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,318.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $3,318.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3,318.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $3,318.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +481% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $3,625.49 | ↑ +524% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $4,571.27 | ↑ +687% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +714% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,125.69 | ↑ +783% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $5,642.52 | ↑ +872% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $6,403.19 | ↑ +1003% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $9,457.80 | ↑ +1529% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10,245.95 | ↑ +1665% |
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Artery x-rays chest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,498.28 | $176.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,498.28 | $514.23 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,498.28 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |