Laser surgery of prostate at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$405.13
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.
$2,315.00
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.
$1,273.25 with Health Smart vs $16,548.54 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,273.25 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,296.40 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,412.15 | ↑ +249% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,777.28 | ↑ +339% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,812.83 | ↑ +347% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,812.83 | ↑ +347% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,866.14 | ↑ +361% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,866.14 | ↑ +361% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,866.14 | ↑ +361% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,967.75 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $2,315.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $3,341.29 | ↑ +725% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3,341.29 | ↑ +725% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,927.79 | ↑ +870% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,998.88 | ↑ +887% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $4,493.97 | ↑ +1009% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $4,990.03 | ↑ +1132% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,091.86 | ↑ +1157% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,091.86 | ↑ +1157% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,193.70 | ↑ +1182% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,244.62 | ↑ +1195% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5,448.29 | ↑ +1245% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $5,855.64 | ↑ +1345% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $5,924.27 | ↑ +1362% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $5,966.58 | ↑ +1373% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6,094.00 | ↑ +1404% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $6,347.43 | ↑ +1467% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $6,982.17 | ↑ +1623% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $7,383.20 | ↑ +1722% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $7,637.79 | ↑ +1785% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $7,855.00 | ↑ +1839% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,899.69 | ↑ +1850% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $9,159.70 | ↑ +2161% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $9,876.47 | ↑ +2338% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,723.00 | ↑ +2547% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,958.00 | ↑ +2852% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $15,275.58 | ↑ +3671% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16,548.54 | ↑ +3985% |
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Laser surgery of prostate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $7,631.27 | $85.00 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $7,631.27 | $71.00 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $10,505.35 | $71.00 – $13,131.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $7,631.27 | $1,689.43 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $10,505.35 | $71.00 – $15,758.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $7,631.27 | $71.00 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $7,631.27 | $71.00 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $10,505.35 | $71.00 – $15,758.03 |