Ghs change cysto/gastrost at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$169.93
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.
$971.00
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.
$115.88 with SUPERIOR 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $115.88 | ↓ -32% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $118.20 | ↓ -30% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $118.20 | ↓ -30% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $121.67 | ↓ -28% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $121.67 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $121.67 | ↓ -28% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $205.36 | ↑ +21% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $217.85 | ↑ +28% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $217.85 | ↑ +28% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $238.73 | ↑ +40% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +43% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↑ +46% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $250.91 | ↑ +48% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $256.09 | ↑ +51% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↑ +53% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $260.73 | ↑ +53% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $280.14 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $328.86 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $331.21 | ↑ +95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $352.35 | ↑ +107% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $353.22 | ↑ +108% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $387.59 | ↑ +128% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $437.50 | ↑ +157% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $476.47 | ↑ +180% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $534.05 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $543.76 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $592.31 | ↑ +249% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $595.51 | ↑ +250% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $730.80 | ↑ +330% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $791.70 | ↑ +366% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $825.35 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $971.00 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,508.00 | ↑ +787% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +1600% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,960.00 | ↑ +1642% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +2220% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $625.78 | $117.86 – $938.67 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $559.69 | $293.63 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $825.14 | $110.15 – $1,031.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $625.78 | $117.86 – $938.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $891.29 | $110.15 – $1,114.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $825.14 | $110.15 – $1,031.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $625.78 | $110.15 – $938.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $891.29 | $110.15 – $1,336.94 |