Biopsy needle lymph node superficial at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$402.50
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.
$2,300.00
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.
$511.75 with SUPERIOR vs $5,274.30 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 | $511.75 | ↑ +27% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $521.99 | ↑ +30% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $521.99 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $537.34 | ↑ +34% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $537.34 | ↑ +34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $537.34 | ↑ +34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $962.09 | ↑ +139% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $962.09 | ↑ +139% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,130.97 | ↑ +181% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,151.44 | ↑ +186% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,265.00 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,288.00 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,403.00 | ↑ +249% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,433.15 | ↑ +256% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1,590.41 | ↑ +295% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,622.86 | ↑ +303% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,622.86 | ↑ +303% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,655.32 | ↑ +311% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,671.55 | ↑ +315% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,736.46 | ↑ +331% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $1,866.29 | ↑ +364% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,921.64 | ↑ +377% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,935.37 | ↑ +381% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,955.00 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,058.90 | ↑ +412% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +428% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,264.79 | ↑ +463% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $2,300.00 | ↑ +471% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,353.15 | ↑ +485% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,434.29 | ↑ +505% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,519.32 | ↑ +526% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $2,870.02 | ↑ +613% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +618% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $3,148.27 | ↑ +682% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +880% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,168.00 | ↑ +936% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $4,868.58 | ↑ +1110% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,274.30 | ↑ +1210% |
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Biopsy needle lymph node superficial at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,156.98 | $85.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,303.63 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,156.98 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,879.09 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,303.63 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,156.98 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,879.09 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,303.63 | $486.45 – $4,016.35 |