Tissue culture tumor at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$196.35
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.
$1,122.00
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.
$123.92 with SUPERIOR vs $953.70 with Multiplan — 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 | $123.92 | ↓ -37% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $126.40 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $126.40 | ↓ -36% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $130.12 | ↓ -34% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $130.12 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $130.12 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $132.77 | ↓ -32% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $144.57 | ↓ -26% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↓ -25% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↓ -25% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $150.47 | ↓ -23% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $151.95 | ↓ -23% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $157.85 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $160.63 | ↓ -18% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $169.65 | ↓ -14% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $213.90 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $221.28 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $232.97 | ↑ +19% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $232.97 | ↑ +19% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $262.59 | ↑ +34% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $273.86 | ↑ +39% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $278.82 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $286.84 | ↑ +46% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $295.04 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $321.60 | ↑ +64% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $331.92 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $438.41 | ↑ +123% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $442.56 | ↑ +125% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $479.44 | ↑ +144% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $517.80 | ↑ +164% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $517.80 | ↑ +164% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $528.12 | ↑ +169% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $609.26 | ↑ +210% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $617.10 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $628.32 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $684.42 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $953.70 | ↑ +386% |
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Tissue culture tumor at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $652.70 | $36.00 – $979.05 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $772.11 | $35.00 – $965.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $652.70 | $36.00 – $979.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $633.69 | $36.00 – $792.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $772.11 | $35.00 – $965.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $652.70 | $26.00 – $979.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $633.69 | $36.00 – $950.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $772.11 | $35.00 – $965.14 |