Cystoscopy & ureter catheter at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$59.15
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.
$338.00
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.
$185.90 with Health Smart vs $8,788.00 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 | $185.90 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $189.28 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $206.18 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $287.30 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $338.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $686.75 | ↑ +1061% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $700.49 | ↑ +1084% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $700.49 | ↑ +1084% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $721.09 | ↑ +1119% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $721.09 | ↑ +1119% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $721.09 | ↑ +1119% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $1,291.09 | ↑ +2083% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,291.09 | ↑ +2083% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,517.72 | ↑ +2466% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,545.19 | ↑ +2512% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,772.75 | ↑ +2897% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $2,010.80 | ↑ +3299% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↑ +3369% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↑ +3369% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,092.87 | ↑ +3438% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $2,113.38 | ↑ +3473% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↑ +3612% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $2,359.60 | ↑ +3889% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,480.17 | ↑ +4093% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $2,497.89 | ↑ +4123% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,657.33 | ↑ +4393% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,923.06 | ↑ +4842% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,975.15 | ↑ +4930% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.75 | ↑ +5103% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,205.98 | ↑ +5320% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,346.00 | ↑ +5557% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,605.60 | ↑ +5996% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $4,011.95 | ↑ +6683% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4,479.00 | ↑ +7472% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,568.00 | ↑ +7623% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $6,155.49 | ↑ +10307% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,668.45 | ↑ +11174% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,788.00 | ↑ +14757% |
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Cystoscopy & ureter catheter at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,416.48 | $85.00 – $5,124.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,416.48 | $71.00 – $5,124.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,642.81 | $71.00 – $5,803.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,416.48 | $652.80 – $5,124.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $4,642.81 | $71.00 – $6,964.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $3,416.48 | $71.00 – $5,045.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $3,416.48 | $71.00 – $5,124.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $4,642.81 | $71.00 – $6,964.22 |