X-ray skull > 4 views complete at St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital
1604 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1942294939
$164.50
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.
$940.00
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.
$44.78 with SUPERIOR vs $940.00 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 | $44.78 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $45.68 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $45.68 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $47.02 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $47.02 | ↓ -71% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $47.02 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $77.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $84.19 | ↓ -49% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STAR | $84.19 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $89.93 | ↓ -45% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $98.96 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $100.75 | ↓ -39% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $102.15 | ↓ -38% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $104.38 | ↓ -37% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -35% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -34% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -33% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -31% |
| ACH | Commercial|All Plans | $122.49 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $123.02 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $152.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $154.44 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.77 | ↓ -3% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $194.62 | ↑ +18% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $194.95 | ↑ +19% |
| Wellpath | Commercial|All Plans | $243.83 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $254.42 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $282.44 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $300.37 | ↑ +83% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $319.53 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $331.76 | ↑ +102% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $346.16 | ↑ +110% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $517.00 | ↑ +214% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $526.40 | ↑ +220% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $573.40 | ↑ +249% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $799.00 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $940.00 | ↑ +471% |
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X-ray skull > 4 views complete at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $440.90 | $47.91 – $661.35 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $350.76 | $44.78 – $438.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $440.90 | $90.75 – $661.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $449.72 | $44.78 – $562.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $350.76 | $44.78 – $438.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $440.90 | $44.78 – $661.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $449.72 | $44.78 – $674.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $350.76 | $44.78 – $438.45 |