Assay acid 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

$43.93

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.

$251.00

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.

$6.42 with SUPERIOR vs $213.35 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 $6.42 ↓ -85%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $6.55 ↓ -85%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $6.55 ↓ -85%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $6.74 ↓ -85%
BCBS Medicaid|STARKIDS $6.74 ↓ -85%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $6.74 ↓ -85%
United Commercial|Exchange $6.88 ↓ -84%
PGT Medicare|All Plans $7.49 ↓ -83%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $7.64 ↓ -83%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $7.64 ↓ -83%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $7.64 ↓ -83%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $7.79 ↓ -82%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $7.87 ↓ -82%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Ref Lab $8.05 ↓ -82%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $8.17 ↓ -81%
ACH Commercial|All Plans $8.79 ↓ -80%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $11.08 ↓ -75%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $11.46 ↓ -74%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $12.07 ↓ -73%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STAR $12.07 ↓ -73%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $13.60 ↓ -69%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $14.19 ↓ -68%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $14.37 ↓ -67%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $14.45 ↓ -67%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $15.28 ↓ -65%
Cigna Commercial|Local Plus $16.60 ↓ -62%
Wellpath Commercial|All Plans $17.19 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $22.63 ↓ -48%
Ellwood Commercial|All Plans $22.92 ↓ -48%
NX Health Commercial|All Plans $24.83 ↓ -43%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $26.82 ↓ -39%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $26.82 ↓ -39%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $27.35 ↓ -38%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $31.55 ↓ -28%
Health Smart Commercial|All Plans $138.05 ↑ +214%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $140.56 ↑ +220%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $153.11 ↑ +249%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $213.35 ↑ +386%

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