Comprehensive hearing test at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$12.08
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.
$69.00
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.
$37.95 with Health Smart vs $509.31 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $37.95 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $38.64 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $42.09 | ↑ +248% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $58.65 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $69.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $69.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $69.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $69.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $69.00 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $77.00 | ↑ +537% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $138.99 | ↑ +1051% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $152.00 | ↑ +1158% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $153.58 | ↑ +1171% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $156.71 | ↑ +1197% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $156.71 | ↑ +1197% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $159.84 | ↑ +1223% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $161.41 | ↑ +1236% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $167.68 | ↑ +1288% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $180.22 | ↑ +1392% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $227.23 | ↑ +1781% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $235.07 | ↑ +1846% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $249.98 | ↑ +1969% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $276.52 | ↑ +2189% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $312.25 | ↑ +2485% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $470.13 | ↑ +3792% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $509.31 | ↑ +4116% |
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Comprehensive hearing test at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $299.76 | $96.22 – $449.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $299.76 | $61.70 – $449.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $299.76 | $59.95 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $299.76 | $154.88 – $449.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $299.76 | $99.92 – $449.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $299.76 | $59.95 – $386.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $299.76 | $74.94 – $449.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $299.76 | $54.96 – $449.64 |