Ventilator each subsequent day at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$1,000.30
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.
$5,716.00
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.
$200.00 with Cigna vs $5,716.00 with BCBS-TX — 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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| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $200.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $273.00 | ↓ -73% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $532.07 | ↓ -47% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $648.93 | ↓ -35% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $662.17 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $662.17 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $670.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $675.41 | ↓ -32% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $682.04 | ↓ -32% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $708.52 | ↓ -29% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $761.50 | ↓ -24% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $872.29 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $924.41 | ↓ -8% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $960.15 | ↓ -4% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $993.26 | ↓ -1% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $1,085.81 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,087.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,109.32 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,152.03 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,282.10 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,316.00 | ↑ +32% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $1,986.51 | ↑ +99% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,152.05 | ↑ +115% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,143.80 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,200.96 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3,486.76 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,858.60 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $5,716.00 | ↑ +471% |
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Ventilator each subsequent day at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,492.75 | $479.17 – $2,239.13 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,891.14 | $1,788.44 – $1,788.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,572.08 | $445.42 – $1,965.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,492.75 | $307.26 – $2,239.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,732.73 | $346.55 – $2,165.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,572.08 | $419.22 – $1,965.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,492.75 | $771.26 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,732.73 | $577.58 – $2,599.10 |