Event monitor at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$2.28
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.
$13.00
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.
$6.37 with Cigna vs $436.00 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.37 | ↑ +179% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $6.37 | ↑ +179% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $7.15 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $7.28 | ↑ +219% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $7.93 | ↑ +248% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.05 | ↑ +385% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $13.00 | ↑ +470% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $13.00 | ↑ +470% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $13.00 | ↑ +470% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $13.00 | ↑ +470% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $13.00 | ↑ +470% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $33.45 | ↑ +1367% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $36.61 | ↑ +1506% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $37.35 | ↑ +1538% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $37.35 | ↑ +1538% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $38.10 | ↑ +1571% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $38.47 | ↑ +1587% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $39.96 | ↑ +1653% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $42.95 | ↑ +1784% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $54.16 | ↑ +2275% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $56.03 | ↑ +2357% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $66.68 | ↑ +2825% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $66.76 | ↑ +2828% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $83.11 | ↑ +3545% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $112.05 | ↑ +4814% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $121.39 | ↑ +5224% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $222.00 | ↑ +9637% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $436.00 | ↑ +19023% |
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Event monitor at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $366.60 | $35.62 – $917.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $366.60 | $75.46 – $917.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $321.83 | $35.62 – $917.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $366.60 | $93.42 – $549.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $321.83 | $35.62 – $482.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $366.60 | $35.62 – $917.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $366.60 | $35.62 – $917.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $321.83 | $35.62 – $917.00 |