MRI chest without contrast at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$787.50
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.
$4,500.00
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.
$223.18 with KELSEY vs $4,500.00 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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| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $223.18 | ↓ -72% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $233.47 | ↓ -70% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $237.27 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $238.14 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $238.14 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -69% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $245.14 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $245.14 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $245.14 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -69% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $249.37 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -67% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $278.43 | ↓ -65% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $351.06 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -54% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $412.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $433.76 | ↓ -45% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $438.92 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $438.92 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $514.94 | ↓ -35% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $515.97 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $525.31 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $657.17 | ↓ -17% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $726.33 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $759.71 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $762.04 | ↓ -3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $786.86 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $894.87 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $1,169.00 | ↑ +48% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,450.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,596.00 | ↑ +103% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,011.00 | ↑ +155% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,475.00 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,520.00 | ↑ +220% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,825.00 | ↑ +386% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,947.00 | ↑ +401% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $4,500.00 | ↑ +471% |
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MRI chest without contrast at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,746.00 | $227.71 – $2,619.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,593.75 | $227.71 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,746.00 | $314.76 – $2,619.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,746.00 | $227.71 – $2,182.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,593.75 | $227.71 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,746.00 | $233.47 – $2,700.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,746.00 | $227.71 – $2,619.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,593.75 | $227.71 – $2,149.00 |