Remove/transplant tendon at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$170.10
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.
$972.00
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.
$534.60 with Health Smart vs $23,254.72 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 | $534.60 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $544.32 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $592.92 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $826.20 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $972.00 | ↑ +471% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,387.38 | ↑ +1891% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3,455.13 | ↑ +1931% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3,455.13 | ↑ +1931% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3,556.75 | ↑ +1991% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3,556.75 | ↑ +1991% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3,556.75 | ↑ +1991% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $4,319.00 | ↑ +2439% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,896.00 | ↑ +3366% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6,045.00 | ↑ +3454% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $6,321.73 | ↑ +3616% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $6,368.27 | ↑ +3644% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $6,368.27 | ↑ +3644% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $7,012.20 | ↑ +4022% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +4107% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +4107% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $7,298.41 | ↑ +4191% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $7,369.96 | ↑ +4233% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,486.11 | ↑ +4301% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,621.60 | ↑ +4381% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $7,656.17 | ↑ +4401% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $8,228.59 | ↑ +4738% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8,374.73 | ↑ +4823% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $8,434.55 | ↑ +4859% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,972.93 | ↑ +5175% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9,870.22 | ↑ +5703% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $10,375.18 | ↑ +5999% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $10,732.95 | ↑ +6210% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11,215.26 | ↑ +6493% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,861.00 | ↑ +6873% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $12,664.20 | ↑ +7345% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $14,018.33 | ↑ +8141% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $21,465.90 | ↑ +12520% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $23,254.72 | ↑ +13571% |
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Remove/transplant tendon at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,386.48 | $85.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,386.48 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,114.14 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,386.48 | $2,822.07 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,114.14 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $3,386.48 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $3,386.48 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $3,114.14 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |