X-ray exam entire spi 4/5 vw at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$1,194.38
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.
$6,825.00
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.
$79.53 with SUPERIOR vs $6,825.00 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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| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|CHIP | $79.53 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $81.12 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $81.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $83.51 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $83.51 | ↓ -93% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $83.51 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $102.15 | ↓ -91% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $104.38 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -91% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -91% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -91% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -90% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $122.49 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $134.16 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $148.93 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $149.52 | ↓ -87% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $149.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $154.44 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $158.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.77 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $174.94 | ↓ -85% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $175.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $176.14 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $178.94 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $179.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $194.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $194.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $240.97 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $243.83 | ↓ -80% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $319.53 | ↓ -73% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $346.16 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $351.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,753.75 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,822.00 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4,163.25 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,801.25 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $6,825.00 | ↑ +471% |
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X-ray exam entire spi 4/5 vw at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $560.57 | $85.10 – $840.86 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $539.81 | $79.53 – $674.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $560.57 | $115.38 – $840.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $560.57 | $79.53 – $700.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $539.81 | $79.53 – $674.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $560.57 | $79.53 – $840.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $560.57 | $79.53 – $840.86 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $539.81 | $79.53 – $674.76 |