Av fusion direct any site at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$171.50
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.
$980.00
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.
$539.00 with Health Smart vs $11,861.00 with United — 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 | $539.00 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $548.80 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $597.80 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $833.00 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $980.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,176.37 | ↑ +586% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,199.90 | ↑ +600% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,199.90 | ↑ +600% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,235.19 | ↑ +620% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,235.19 | ↑ +620% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,235.19 | ↑ +620% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $2,211.58 | ↑ +1190% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $2,211.58 | ↑ +1190% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,599.78 | ↑ +1416% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,646.83 | ↑ +1443% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,847.06 | ↑ +1560% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $3,089.55 | ↑ +1701% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +1738% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +1738% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +1775% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↑ +1793% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +1867% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $3,625.49 | ↑ +2014% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,711.00 | ↑ +2064% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3,879.79 | ↑ +2162% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $3,907.50 | ↑ +2178% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $4,156.92 | ↑ +2324% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $4,571.27 | ↑ +2565% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $4,572.61 | ↑ +2566% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +2657% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,066.00 | ↑ +2854% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,125.69 | ↑ +2889% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $5,642.52 | ↑ +3190% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6,045.00 | ↑ +3425% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $6,403.19 | ↑ +3634% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $9,457.80 | ↑ +5415% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10,245.95 | ↑ +5874% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,861.00 | ↑ +6816% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $7,740.32 | $85.00 – $11,610.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $7,740.32 | $71.00 – $11,610.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $7,740.32 | $71.00 – $9,675.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $7,740.32 | $1,118.22 – $11,610.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $7,740.32 | $71.00 – $11,610.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $7,740.32 | $71.00 – $9,675.41 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $7,740.32 | $71.00 – $11,610.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $7,740.32 | $71.00 – $11,610.49 |