X-ray optic foramina at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$123.90
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.
$708.00
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.
$37.76 with SUPERIOR vs $708.00 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 | $37.76 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $38.52 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $38.52 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $39.65 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $39.65 | ↓ -68% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $39.65 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $70.99 | ↓ -43% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $70.99 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $78.44 | ↓ -37% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $83.03 | ↓ -33% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $83.45 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $84.96 | ↓ -31% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $86.43 | ↓ -30% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↓ -29% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $89.95 | ↓ -27% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $90.84 | ↓ -27% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↓ -24% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $101.42 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $107.31 | ↓ -13% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $127.88 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $132.29 | ↑ +7% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $144.84 | ↑ +17% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $160.86 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $179.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $181.01 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $181.17 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $201.12 | ↑ +62% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $213.89 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $236.24 | ↑ +91% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $264.57 | ↑ +114% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $286.62 | ↑ +131% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $351.00 | ↑ +183% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $389.40 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $396.48 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $431.88 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $601.80 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $708.00 | ↑ +471% |
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X-ray optic foramina at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $200.74 | $40.40 – $301.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $138.73 | $37.76 – $225.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $200.74 | $41.32 – $301.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $210.77 | $37.76 – $263.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $138.73 | $37.76 – $225.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $200.74 | $37.76 – $301.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $210.77 | $37.76 – $316.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $138.73 | $37.76 – $225.11 |