Biliary endoscopy thru skin at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$548.10
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.
$3,132.00
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.
$1,640.20 with SUPERIOR 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,640.20 | ↑ +199% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,673.00 | ↑ +205% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,673.00 | ↑ +205% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,722.21 | ↑ +214% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,722.21 | ↑ +214% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,722.21 | ↑ +214% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,722.60 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,753.92 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,910.52 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,662.20 | ↑ +386% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3,083.58 | ↑ +463% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $3,083.58 | ↑ +463% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $3,132.00 | ↑ +471% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,385.09 | ↑ +518% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $3,464.09 | ↑ +532% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,534.78 | ↑ +545% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,534.78 | ↑ +545% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,605.48 | ↑ +558% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,624.84 | ↑ +561% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,640.82 | ↑ +564% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,690.45 | ↑ +573% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,711.00 | ↑ +577% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,782.21 | ↑ +590% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $4,065.00 | ↑ +642% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $4,353.08 | ↑ +694% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $4,384.17 | ↑ +700% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $4,664.01 | ↑ +751% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,066.00 | ↑ +824% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $5,125.43 | ↑ +835% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $5,130.41 | ↑ +836% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5,302.17 | ↑ +867% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,696.73 | ↑ +939% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6,045.00 | ↑ +1003% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $6,124.34 | ↑ +1017% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $7,123.14 | ↑ +1200% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $10,604.34 | ↑ +1835% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11,488.03 | ↑ +1996% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,861.00 | ↑ +2064% |
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Biliary endoscopy thru skin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,478.00 | $1,628.87 – $9,722.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,676.24 | $1,559.13 – $13,982.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,478.00 | $510.06 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,676.24 | $1,559.13 – $13,982.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,478.00 | $1,559.13 – $8,570.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,676.24 | $1,559.13 – $13,982.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $2,676.24 | $1,559.13 – $14,005.19 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $2,478.00 | $1,362.90 – $9,722.46 |