Create eardrum opening at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$71.75
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.
$410.00
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.
$225.50 with Health Smart vs $5,066.00 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $225.50 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $229.60 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $250.10 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $348.50 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $410.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $442.51 | ↑ +517% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $451.36 | ↑ +529% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $451.36 | ↑ +529% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $464.64 | ↑ +548% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $464.64 | ↑ +548% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $464.64 | ↑ +548% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $831.92 | ↑ +1059% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $831.92 | ↑ +1059% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $977.95 | ↑ +1263% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $995.65 | ↑ +1288% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,326.67 | ↑ +1749% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1,454.01 | ↑ +1926% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,483.68 | ↑ +1968% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,483.68 | ↑ +1968% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,513.35 | ↑ +2009% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,528.19 | ↑ +2030% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.54 | ↑ +2113% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $1,706.23 | ↑ +2278% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,889.08 | ↑ +2533% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,902.57 | ↑ +2552% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,024.01 | ↑ +2721% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +2860% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,151.34 | ↑ +2898% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,225.52 | ↑ +3002% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,226.41 | ↑ +3003% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,422.10 | ↑ +3276% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $2,699.66 | ↑ +3663% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $3,026.97 | ↑ +4119% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,711.00 | ↑ +5072% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,168.00 | ↑ +5709% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $4,451.04 | ↑ +6104% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,821.96 | ↑ +6621% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,066.00 | ↑ +6961% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,402.26 | $85.00 – $5,103.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,402.26 | $71.00 – $5,103.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,340.97 | $71.00 – $4,463.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,402.26 | $420.64 – $5,103.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,340.97 | $71.00 – $5,011.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $3,402.26 | $71.00 – $4,463.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $3,402.26 | $71.00 – $5,103.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $3,340.97 | $71.00 – $5,011.45 |