Insert cath pleura without image at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$275.45
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.
$1,574.00
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.
$594.35 with SUPERIOR vs $6,175.19 with NX Health — 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 | $594.35 | ↑ +116% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $606.24 | ↑ +120% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $606.24 | ↑ +120% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $624.07 | ↑ +127% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $624.07 | ↑ +127% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $624.07 | ↑ +127% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $865.70 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $881.44 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $960.14 | ↑ +249% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $1,117.38 | ↑ +306% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,117.38 | ↑ +306% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,313.51 | ↑ +377% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,337.29 | ↑ +385% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,337.90 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $1,574.00 | ↑ +471% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.47 | ↑ +504% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1,862.06 | ↑ +576% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,900.06 | ↑ +590% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,900.06 | ↑ +590% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,938.06 | ↑ +604% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,957.06 | ↑ +610% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2,033.06 | ↑ +638% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +671% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,180.36 | ↑ +692% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $2,185.07 | ↑ +693% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $2,195.93 | ↑ +697% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,336.10 | ↑ +748% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,569.71 | ↑ +833% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,755.09 | ↑ +900% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,850.09 | ↑ +935% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +948% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,908.22 | ↑ +956% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,368.40 | ↑ +1123% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $3,636.11 | ↑ +1220% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +1331% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,168.00 | ↑ +1413% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $5,700.18 | ↑ +1969% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,175.19 | ↑ +2142% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,157.58 | $85.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,549.87 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,157.58 | $71.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,768.26 | $71.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,549.87 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,157.58 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,768.26 | $71.00 – $4,713.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,549.87 | $564.97 – $4,713.77 |