Basic vestibular evaluation at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$25.90
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.
$148.00
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.
$50.21 with BCBS-TX vs $509.31 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $50.21 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $59.04 | ↑ +128% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $62.57 | ↑ +142% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $69.63 | ↑ +169% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $77.00 | ↑ +197% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $81.40 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $82.88 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $90.28 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $125.80 | ↑ +386% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $138.99 | ↑ +437% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $148.00 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $152.00 | ↑ +487% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $153.58 | ↑ +493% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $156.71 | ↑ +505% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $156.71 | ↑ +505% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $159.84 | ↑ +517% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $161.41 | ↑ +523% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $167.68 | ↑ +547% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $180.22 | ↑ +596% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $227.23 | ↑ +777% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $235.07 | ↑ +808% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $249.98 | ↑ +865% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $276.52 | ↑ +968% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $312.25 | ↑ +1106% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $470.13 | ↑ +1715% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $509.31 | ↑ +1866% |
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Basic vestibular evaluation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $537.70 | $93.10 – $806.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $537.70 | $76.19 – $806.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $712.28 | $76.19 – $890.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $537.70 | $277.81 – $806.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $712.28 | $76.19 – $1,068.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $537.70 | $76.19 – $672.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $537.70 | $76.19 – $806.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $712.28 | $76.19 – $1,068.42 |