Echo guide for artery repair at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$360.68
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,061.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$260.96 with SUPERIOR vs $2,061.00 with BCBS-TX — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $260.96 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $266.18 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $266.18 | ↓ -26% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $267.66 | ↓ -26% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $274.01 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $274.01 | ↓ -24% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $274.01 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $290.00 | ↓ -20% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $305.67 | ↓ -15% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↓ -14% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $318.14 | ↓ -12% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $321.26 | ↓ -11% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↓ -7% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $358.69 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $395.14 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $438.66 | ↑ +22% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $452.25 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $466.51 | ↑ +29% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +30% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $473.87 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $484.23 | ↑ +34% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $490.60 | ↑ +36% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $490.60 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $515.25 | ↑ +43% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $555.62 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $570.00 | ↑ +58% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $576.72 | ↑ +60% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $587.16 | ↑ +63% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $591.73 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $662.44 | ↑ +84% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $935.70 | ↑ +159% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,013.67 | ↑ +181% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,133.55 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,154.16 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,257.21 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,751.85 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $2,061.00 | ↑ +471% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Echo guide for artery repair at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $512.15 | $206.06 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $512.15 | $105.42 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $612.68 | $206.06 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $512.15 | $260.96 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $612.68 | $206.06 – $919.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |