Urea nitrogen at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$16.10
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.
$92.00
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.
$3.32 with SUPERIOR vs $78.20 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 | $3.32 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.39 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.49 | ↓ -78% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.49 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.49 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3.56 | ↓ -78% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $3.88 | ↓ -76% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -75% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.03 | ↓ -75% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.07 | ↓ -75% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $4.23 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $4.30 | ↓ -73% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $4.54 | ↓ -72% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $5.73 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5.93 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $6.24 | ↓ -61% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $6.24 | ↓ -61% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.03 | ↓ -56% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.34 | ↓ -54% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.47 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.68 | ↓ -52% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $7.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $8.31 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $8.89 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.33 | ↓ -30% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $11.85 | ↓ -26% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.84 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $13.86 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $13.86 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $14.14 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $16.31 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $50.60 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $51.52 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $56.12 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $78.20 | ↑ +386% |
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Urea nitrogen at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $63.50 | $3.55 – $67.50 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $100.88 | $3.56 – $15.21 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $63.28 | $3.32 – $56.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $63.50 | $5.79 – $67.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.50 | $3.32 – $56.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $63.28 | $3.32 – $56.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $63.50 | $3.32 – $67.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $63.50 | $3.32 – $67.50 |