Clearance of airways at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$63.53
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.
$363.00
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.
$29.04 with SUPERIOR vs $3,943.00 with Cigna — 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 | $29.04 | ↓ -54% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $29.63 | ↓ -53% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $29.63 | ↓ -53% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $30.50 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $30.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $30.50 | ↓ -52% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $54.60 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $54.60 | ↓ -14% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $64.18 | ↑ +1% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $65.34 | ↑ +3% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $183.02 | ↑ +188% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $199.65 | ↑ +214% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $199.65 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $203.28 | ↑ +220% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +221% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +221% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $207.79 | ↑ +227% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $209.83 | ↑ +230% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $217.98 | ↑ +243% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $221.43 | ↑ +249% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $234.28 | ↑ +269% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $257.54 | ↑ +305% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $259.38 | ↑ +308% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $275.94 | ↑ +334% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $295.39 | ↑ +365% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $303.53 | ↑ +378% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $305.58 | ↑ +381% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $308.55 | ↑ +386% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $336.56 | ↑ +430% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $363.00 | ↑ +471% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $377.56 | ↑ +494% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $420.39 | ↑ +562% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $611.16 | ↑ +862% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $662.09 | ↑ +942% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,508.00 | ↑ +2274% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +4446% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,960.00 | ↑ +4559% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +6107% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $203.35 | $65.27 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $278.30 | $78.85 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $203.35 | $41.86 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $246.73 | $49.35 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $278.30 | $74.21 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $203.35 | $105.06 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $246.73 | $71.00 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $278.30 | $74.21 – $528.37 |