Blood typing patient serum at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$33.25
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.
$190.00
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.
$13.73 with SUPERIOR vs $193.38 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 | $13.73 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.00 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $14.00 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $14.42 | ↓ -57% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.42 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.42 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $14.71 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $16.01 | ↓ -52% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $25.81 | ↓ -22% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $25.81 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.60 | ↓ -14% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $30.34 | ↓ -9% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $30.89 | ↓ -7% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $32.46 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $35.49 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.38 | ↑ +46% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $58.31 | ↑ +75% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↑ +79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↑ +79% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $60.61 | ↑ +82% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↑ +83% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $61.28 | ↑ +84% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↑ +91% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $68.42 | ↑ +106% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $75.71 | ↑ +128% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $86.28 | ↑ +159% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +168% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $104.50 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $106.40 | ↑ +220% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $108.28 | ↑ +226% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $115.90 | ↑ +249% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $117.34 | ↑ +253% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $117.34 | ↑ +253% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $119.68 | ↑ +260% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $138.07 | ↑ +315% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $161.50 | ↑ +386% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $178.50 | ↑ +437% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $193.38 | ↑ +482% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $96.88 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $115.51 | $10.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $96.88 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $76.80 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $115.51 | $10.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $96.88 | $8.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $76.80 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $115.51 | $10.00 – $151.53 |