Flexible Sigmoidoscopy at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$36.75
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.
$210.00
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.
$115.50 with Health Smart vs $3,943.00 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $115.50 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $117.60 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $128.10 | ↑ +249% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $137.46 | ↑ +274% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $140.21 | ↑ +282% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $140.21 | ↑ +282% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $144.33 | ↑ +293% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $144.33 | ↑ +293% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $144.33 | ↑ +293% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $178.50 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $203.62 | ↑ +454% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $205.07 | ↑ +458% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $210.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $218.16 | ↑ +494% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $239.98 | ↑ +553% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $258.42 | ↑ +603% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $258.42 | ↑ +603% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $303.79 | ↑ +727% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $309.29 | ↑ +742% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $794.24 | ↑ +2061% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $894.93 | ↑ +2335% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $913.19 | ↑ +2385% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $913.19 | ↑ +2385% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $931.45 | ↑ +2435% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $940.59 | ↑ +2459% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $977.11 | ↑ +2559% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $1,050.17 | ↑ +2758% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,324.13 | ↑ +3503% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,369.79 | ↑ +3627% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,420.92 | ↑ +3766% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,508.00 | ↑ +4003% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,617.90 | ↑ +4302% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $1,775.86 | ↑ +4732% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $2,739.57 | ↑ +7355% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +7759% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,960.00 | ↑ +7954% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,967.87 | ↑ +7976% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +10629% |
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Flexible Sigmoidoscopy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | not published | $139.82 – $2,975.00 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,047.06 | $118.14 – $2,444.00 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $1,047.06 | $120.14 – $2,681.00 |