Nasal/sinus endoscopy surg w/bx 31237 at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$69.48
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.
$397.00
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.
$218.35 with Health Smart vs $5,613.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $218.35 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $222.32 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $242.17 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $337.45 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $397.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $553.05 | ↑ +696% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $564.11 | ↑ +712% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $564.11 | ↑ +712% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $580.70 | ↑ +736% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $580.70 | ↑ +736% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $580.70 | ↑ +736% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,039.73 | ↑ +1396% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $1,039.73 | ↑ +1396% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,222.24 | ↑ +1659% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,244.36 | ↑ +1691% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,527.78 | ↑ +2099% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1,692.72 | ↑ +2336% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↑ +2386% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↑ +2386% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,761.81 | ↑ +2436% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,779.08 | ↑ +2461% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,848.17 | ↑ +2560% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $1,986.35 | ↑ +2759% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,002.85 | ↑ +2783% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $2,017.16 | ↑ +2803% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +2957% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,145.92 | ↑ +2989% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,360.51 | ↑ +3297% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,504.53 | ↑ +3505% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,590.89 | ↑ +3629% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,678.88 | ↑ +3756% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,004.52 | ↑ +4224% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,346.00 | ↑ +4716% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $3,348.29 | ↑ +4719% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,168.00 | ↑ +5899% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,568.00 | ↑ +6475% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $5,181.78 | ↑ +7358% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,613.60 | ↑ +7979% |
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Nasal/sinus endoscopy surg w/bx 31237 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,850.66 | $85.00 – $4,204.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,923.97 | $525.71 – $4,204.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,850.66 | $71.00 – $4,204.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,831.51 | $71.00 – $4,204.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,923.97 | $525.71 – $4,204.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,850.66 | $525.71 – $4,204.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,831.51 | $71.00 – $4,247.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,923.97 | $525.71 – $4,204.56 |