Drainage of rectal abscess at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$263.73
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.
$1,507.00
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.
$451.58 with SUPERIOR vs $4,568.00 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $451.58 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $460.61 | ↑ +75% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $460.61 | ↑ +75% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $474.16 | ↑ +80% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $474.16 | ↑ +80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $474.16 | ↑ +80% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $828.85 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $843.92 | ↑ +220% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $848.97 | ↑ +222% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $848.97 | ↑ +222% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $919.27 | ↑ +249% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $997.99 | ↑ +278% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,016.05 | ↑ +285% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,034.96 | ↑ +292% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1,157.38 | ↑ +339% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,180.99 | ↑ +348% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,180.99 | ↑ +348% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,204.61 | ↑ +357% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,216.42 | ↑ +361% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,263.66 | ↑ +379% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,280.95 | ↑ +386% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $1,358.14 | ↑ +415% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,405.91 | ↑ +433% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,415.95 | ↑ +437% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,506.33 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $1,507.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,656.96 | ↑ +528% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,712.44 | ↑ +549% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,771.49 | ↑ +572% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,856.74 | ↑ +604% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $2,088.98 | ↑ +692% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +705% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $2,320.29 | ↑ +780% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,346.00 | ↑ +1169% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $3,542.97 | ↑ +1243% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,838.22 | ↑ +1355% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,168.00 | ↑ +1480% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,568.00 | ↑ +1632% |
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Drainage of rectal abscess at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,778.55 | $459.31 – $4,167.82 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,299.90 | $429.26 – $2,923.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,778.55 | $459.31 – $4,167.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,382.16 | $429.26 – $2,977.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,299.90 | $429.26 – $2,923.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,778.55 | $429.26 – $4,167.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,382.16 | $429.26 – $3,573.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,299.90 | $429.26 – $2,923.34 |