Blood split unit at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$33.43
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.
$191.00
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.
$47.00 with United vs $461.60 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $47.00 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $92.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $93.59 | ↑ +180% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $93.59 | ↑ +180% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $105.05 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $106.96 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $116.51 | ↑ +249% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $132.89 | ↑ +298% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $139.19 | ↑ +316% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $142.03 | ↑ +325% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $142.03 | ↑ +325% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $144.87 | ↑ +333% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $146.29 | ↑ +338% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $151.97 | ↑ +355% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $162.35 | ↑ +386% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $163.33 | ↑ +389% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $191.00 | ↑ +471% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $205.94 | ↑ +516% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $213.05 | ↑ +537% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $264.19 | ↑ +690% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $276.96 | ↑ +728% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $330.23 | ↑ +888% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $426.09 | ↑ +1175% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $461.60 | ↑ +1281% |
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Blood split unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $563.50 | $61.20 – $1,000.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $452.22 | $61.20 – $1,000.10 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $33.43 | $24.34 – $191.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $302.75 | $61.20 – $865.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $33.43 | $47.00 – $212.01 |