Repair achilles tendon at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$1,434.13
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.
$8,195.00
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.
$2,523.24 with SUPERIOR 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 |
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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,523.24 | ↑ +76% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,573.70 | ↑ +79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,573.70 | ↑ +79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,649.40 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,649.40 | ↑ +85% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,649.40 | ↑ +85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $3,711.00 | ↑ +159% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,507.25 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,589.20 | ↑ +220% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $4,743.69 | ↑ +231% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $4,743.69 | ↑ +231% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4,998.95 | ↑ +249% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,066.00 | ↑ +253% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,576.36 | ↑ +289% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,677.29 | ↑ +296% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6,094.00 | ↑ +325% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $6,321.73 | ↑ +341% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,965.75 | ↑ +386% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $7,012.20 | ↑ +389% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +399% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,155.30 | ↑ +399% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $7,298.41 | ↑ +409% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $7,369.96 | ↑ +414% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $7,656.17 | ↑ +434% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $8,195.00 | ↑ +471% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $8,228.59 | ↑ +474% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8,374.73 | ↑ +484% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $8,434.55 | ↑ +488% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,972.93 | ↑ +526% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9,870.22 | ↑ +588% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $10,375.18 | ↑ +623% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $10,732.95 | ↑ +648% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11,215.26 | ↑ +682% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,958.00 | ↑ +734% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $12,664.20 | ↑ +783% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $14,018.33 | ↑ +877% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $21,465.90 | ↑ +1397% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $23,254.72 | ↑ +1522% |
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Repair achilles tendon at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $6,605.32 | $85.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $6,605.32 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $8,963.70 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $6,605.32 | $2,398.52 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $8,963.70 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $6,605.32 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $6,605.32 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $8,963.70 | $71.00 – $17,722.46 |