Observation per hour at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$52.85
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.
$302.00
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.
$24.16 with SUPERIOR vs $7,367.00 with United — 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 | $24.16 | ↓ -54% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $24.65 | ↓ -53% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.65 | ↓ -53% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.37 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.37 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $25.37 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $45.43 | ↓ -14% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $45.43 | ↓ -14% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $53.40 | ↑ +1% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $54.36 | ↑ +3% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $166.10 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $169.12 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $184.22 | ↑ +249% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $253.17 | ↑ +379% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $256.70 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $297.69 | ↑ +463% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $302.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $302.00 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $302.00 | ↑ +471% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,731.00 | ↑ +5067% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,728.00 | ↑ +6954% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,754.00 | ↑ +7003% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,367.00 | ↑ +13839% |
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Observation per hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $644.35 | $489.80 – $489.80 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $155.40 | $4.39 – $90.00 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $21.70 | $6.82 – $90.90 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $52.85 | $38.48 – $271.80 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $34.54 | $19.65 – $131.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $21.70 | $6.20 – $90.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $21.70 | $4.96 – $90.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $21.70 | $4.96 – $90.90 |