Colistimethate sodium inj at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$1.69
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.
$9.61
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.
$5.29 with Health Smart vs $20.06 with United — 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $5.29 | ↑ +213% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $5.39 | ↑ +219% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.87 | ↑ +247% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.17 | ↑ +383% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $9.61 | ↑ +469% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $12.16 | ↑ +620% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.06 | ↑ +1087% |
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Colistimethate sodium inj at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $209.79 | $11.94 – $172.01 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $88.52 | $39.86 – $64.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $74.82 | $12.08 – $172.01 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $31.96 | $14.52 – $67.67 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $164.85 | $9.07 – $58.32 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $31.96 | $14.89 – $67.67 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $31.96 | $14.89 – $67.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $21.77 | $11.94 – $172.01 |