Echo stress at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$640.68
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$3,661.00
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.
$185.11 with SUPERIOR vs $3,661.00 with BCBS-TX — 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 | $185.11 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $188.81 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $188.81 | ↓ -71% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $194.37 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $194.37 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $194.37 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $235.95 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $277.45 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $294.05 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $327.25 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $348.01 | ↓ -46% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $348.01 | ↓ -46% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $409.09 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $416.50 | ↓ -35% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $480.85 | ↓ -25% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $538.21 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -14% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -14% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -13% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -12% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -8% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $631.57 | ↓ -1% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $796.33 | ↑ +24% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↑ +29% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $865.17 | ↑ +35% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $976.58 | ↑ +52% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,033.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $1,080.50 | ↑ +69% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $1,647.57 | ↑ +157% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,784.87 | ↑ +179% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $1,793.89 | ↑ +180% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,793.89 | ↑ +180% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,013.55 | ↑ +214% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,026.00 | ↑ +216% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,050.16 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,233.21 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,111.85 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $3,661.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Echo stress at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,004.21 | $195.57 – $4,506.31 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,144.62 | $182.78 – $2,680.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,004.21 | $358.08 – $4,506.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,350.85 | $182.78 – $2,938.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,144.62 | $182.78 – $2,680.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,004.21 | $182.78 – $4,506.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,350.85 | $182.78 – $3,526.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,144.62 | $182.78 – $2,680.78 |