Incision of eardrum at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$129.33
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.
$739.00
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.
$92.13 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 | $92.13 | ↓ -29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $93.97 | ↓ -27% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $93.97 | ↓ -27% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $96.74 | ↓ -25% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $96.74 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $96.74 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $144.05 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $145.07 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $154.34 | ↑ +19% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $161.15 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $164.08 | ↑ +27% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $169.77 | ↑ +31% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $173.20 | ↑ +34% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $173.20 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $178.73 | ↑ +38% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $198.63 | ↑ +54% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $203.61 | ↑ +57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $207.29 | ↑ +60% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $227.95 | ↑ +76% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +80% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +80% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +83% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $239.58 | ↑ +85% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +92% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $249.05 | ↑ +93% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $267.49 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $293.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $337.27 | ↑ +161% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +170% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $378.82 | ↑ +193% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $432.40 | ↑ +234% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $473.47 | ↑ +266% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $697.80 | ↑ +440% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $755.95 | ↑ +485% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,508.00 | ↑ +1066% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +2133% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,960.00 | ↑ +2189% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +2949% |
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Incision of eardrum at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $385.12 | $85.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $385.12 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $469.15 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $385.12 | $87.58 – $605.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $469.15 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $385.12 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $385.12 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $469.15 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |