Heart infarct image at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$573.65
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.
$3,278.00
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.
$174.09 with SUPERIOR vs $3,278.00 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 | $174.09 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $177.57 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $177.57 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $182.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $182.79 | ↓ -68% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $182.79 | ↓ -68% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $327.29 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $327.29 | ↓ -43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $371.47 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $382.86 | ↓ -33% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $384.74 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $391.70 | ↓ -32% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $394.44 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -30% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $410.53 | ↓ -28% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $414.55 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $425.02 | ↓ -26% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $430.65 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $452.01 | ↓ -21% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $462.85 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $499.23 | ↓ -13% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $583.60 | ↑ +2% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $603.72 | ↑ +5% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $674.96 | ↑ +18% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $730.10 | ↑ +27% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $843.84 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,117.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $1,207.44 | ↑ +110% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,308.06 | ↑ +128% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $1,540.66 | ↑ +169% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,802.90 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,835.68 | ↑ +220% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,934.02 | ↑ +237% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,999.58 | ↑ +249% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,193.00 | ↑ +282% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,786.30 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $3,278.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Heart infarct image at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $840.74 | $171.25 – $1,261.11 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $840.74 | $160.05 – $1,050.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $840.74 | $173.05 – $1,261.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,114.32 | $160.05 – $1,392.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $840.74 | $160.05 – $1,050.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $840.74 | $160.05 – $1,261.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,114.32 | $160.05 – $1,671.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $840.74 | $160.05 – $1,050.92 |