Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$184.45
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.
$1,054.00
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.
$190.30 with Health Smart vs $5,056.87 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 | $190.30 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $193.76 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $211.06 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $294.10 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $346.00 | ↑ +88% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $469.48 | ↑ +155% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $478.87 | ↑ +160% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $478.87 | ↑ +160% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $492.95 | ↑ +167% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $492.95 | ↑ +167% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $492.95 | ↑ +167% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $882.62 | ↑ +379% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $882.62 | ↑ +379% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $882.71 | ↑ +379% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $889.02 | ↑ +382% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $945.77 | ↑ +413% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,037.55 | ↑ +463% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,040.34 | ↑ +464% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,056.33 | ↑ +473% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,421.97 | ↑ +671% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $1,524.85 | ↑ +727% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +744% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +744% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↑ +760% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↑ +769% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +803% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $1,789.35 | ↑ +870% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.00 | ↑ +1052% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,256.14 | ↑ +1123% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +1165% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,517.86 | ↑ +1265% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $2,835.06 | ↑ +1437% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $2,888.00 | ↑ +1466% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $3,146.36 | ↑ +1606% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,943.00 | ↑ +2038% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,168.00 | ↑ +2160% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $4,667.88 | ↑ +2431% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,056.87 | ↑ +2642% |
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Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,186.53 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,186.53 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $4,231.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,186.53 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $5,077.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |