Dronabinol 2.5mg oral at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$0.39
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.
$2.18
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.
$1.20 with Health Smart vs $3.05 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 | $1.20 | ↑ +208% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1.23 | ↑ +215% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1.33 | ↑ +241% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1.85 | ↑ +374% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1.86 | ↑ +377% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.18 | ↑ +459% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.05 | ↑ +682% |
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Dronabinol 2.5mg oral at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $77.11 | $1.48 – $18.70 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1.50 | $0.66 – $2.96 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1.97 | $0.83 – $6.15 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1.50 | $0.66 – $2.96 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1.50 | $0.66 – $2.96 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $1.50 | $0.66 – $2.96 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1.50 | $0.66 – $2.96 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Livingston | Livingston | $1.97 | $0.83 – $5.31 |