Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$10.15
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.
$58.00
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.
$2.70 with United vs $58.00 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 | $2.70 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $4.13 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.25 | ↓ -48% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5.34 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.64 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $6.75 | ↓ -33% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $8.57 | ↓ -16% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $8.91 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -10% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.27 | ↓ -9% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.36 | ↓ -8% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $9.73 | ↓ -4% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $10.45 | ↑ +3% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $13.18 | ↑ +30% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $13.64 | ↑ +34% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $17.66 | ↑ +74% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $27.27 | ↑ +169% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $29.54 | ↑ +191% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $31.90 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $32.48 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $35.38 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $49.30 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $58.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $25.87 | $8.30 – $38.80 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $67.16 | $8.18 – $8.18 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $28.65 | $8.12 – $35.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $25.87 | $5.32 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $32.66 | $6.05 – $37.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $28.65 | $7.64 – $35.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $25.87 | $8.00 – $38.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $32.66 | $8.87 – $45.37 |