Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$32.38
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.
$185.00
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.
$34.76 with SUPERIOR vs $170.90 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 | $34.76 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $35.46 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $35.46 | ↑ +10% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $36.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $36.50 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $36.50 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $37.38 | ↑ +15% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $40.56 | ↑ +25% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $41.38 | ↑ +28% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↑ +28% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $42.21 | ↑ +30% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $42.62 | ↑ +32% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↑ +37% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $47.59 | ↑ +47% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $60.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $62.07 | ↑ +92% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $65.35 | ↑ +102% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $65.35 | ↑ +102% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.59 | ↑ +124% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $73.66 | ↑ +127% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $76.82 | ↑ +137% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $78.21 | ↑ +142% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $82.76 | ↑ +156% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $90.65 | ↑ +180% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $90.65 | ↑ +180% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $93.11 | ↑ +188% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $101.75 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $103.60 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $112.85 | ↑ +249% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $124.14 | ↑ +283% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $134.49 | ↑ +315% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $145.24 | ↑ +349% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $145.24 | ↑ +349% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $148.14 | ↑ +358% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $157.25 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $170.90 | ↑ +428% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $125.69 | $33.02 – $269.33 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $32.38 | $37.38 – $166.50 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $30.15 | $34.76 – $180.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $59.98 | $24.89 – $107.59 |