Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$2.41
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.
$13.75
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.
$7.57 with Health Smart vs $53.52 with Cigna — 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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| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $7.57 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $7.70 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $8.39 | ↑ +248% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.69 | ↑ +385% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $13.48 | ↑ +459% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $13.75 | ↑ +471% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $14.03 | ↑ +482% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $14.17 | ↑ +488% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $14.72 | ↑ +511% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.10 | ↑ +527% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.40 | ↑ +539% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.40 | ↑ +539% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $15.82 | ↑ +556% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.86 | ↑ +558% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.86 | ↑ +558% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.86 | ↑ +558% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $19.94 | ↑ +727% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $20.63 | ↑ +756% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $24.48 | ↑ +916% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $27.50 | ↑ +1041% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $28.39 | ↑ +1078% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $28.39 | ↑ +1078% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $30.94 | ↑ +1184% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33.37 | ↑ +1285% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33.98 | ↑ +1310% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $39.26 | ↑ +1529% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $41.25 | ↑ +1612% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $44.69 | ↑ +1754% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.52 | ↑ +2121% |
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Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $105.66 | $12.00 – $158.49 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $175.85 | $16.18 – $69.22 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $91.11 | $10.00 – $113.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $105.66 | $12.00 – $158.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $91.84 | $12.00 – $114.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $91.11 | $10.00 – $113.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $105.66 | $8.00 – $158.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $91.84 | $12.00 – $137.75 |