Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$3,214.23
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.
$18,367.00
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.
$86.20 with United vs $431.00 with BCBS-TX — 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 | $86.20 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $94.82 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $107.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $112.06 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $116.37 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $124.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $133.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $133.61 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $142.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $237.05 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $241.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $262.91 | ↓ -92% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $301.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $366.35 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $431.00 | ↓ -87% |
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Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $11,827.05 | not published |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $3,214.23 | $54.91 – $387.90 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $3,548.48 | $100.00 – $624.65 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $3,214.23 | $86.20 – $478.41 |