Concentration infection agents any type at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital

1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$21.00

Cash price

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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.

$120.00

Gross charge

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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.

$5.61 with SUPERIOR vs $102.00 with Multiplan — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
SUPERIOR Medicaid|CHIP $5.61 ↓ -73%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.72 ↓ -73%
UNITED Medicaid|STARKIDS $5.72 ↓ -73%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.89 ↓ -72%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|All Other Plans $5.89 ↓ -72%
BCBS Medicaid|STARKIDS $5.89 ↓ -72%
United Commercial|Exchange $6.01 ↓ -71%
PGT Medicare|All Plans $6.55 ↓ -69%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $6.68 ↓ -68%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $6.68 ↓ -68%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $6.68 ↓ -68%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $6.81 ↓ -68%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $6.88 ↓ -67%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $7.15 ↓ -66%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Ref Lab $7.27 ↓ -65%
ACH Commercial|All Plans $7.68 ↓ -63%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $9.69 ↓ -54%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $10.02 ↓ -52%
Wellpoint Medicaid|STAR $10.55 ↓ -50%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STAR $10.55 ↓ -50%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $11.89 ↓ -43%
SUPERIOR Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.40 ↓ -41%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $12.62 ↓ -40%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $12.99 ↓ -38%
Entrust Commercial|All Plans $13.36 ↓ -36%
Cigna Commercial|Local Plus $14.35 ↓ -32%
Wellpath Commercial|All Plans $15.03 ↓ -28%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $19.57 ↓ -7%
Ellwood Commercial|All Plans $20.04 ↓ -5%
NX Health Commercial|All Plans $21.71 ↑ +3%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $23.45 ↑ +12%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO $23.45 ↑ +12%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $23.91 ↑ +14%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $27.59 ↑ +31%
Health Smart Commercial|All Plans $66.00 ↑ +214%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $67.20 ↑ +220%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $73.20 ↑ +249%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $102.00 ↑ +386%

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