2nd order venous cath at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$394.07
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.
$1,125.90
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.
$67.56 with UNITED vs $12,750.00 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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| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $67.56 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $67.56 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $90.53 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $90.53 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $168.89 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $206.72 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $562.95 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,125.90 | ↑ +186% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,508.71 | ↑ +283% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,635.00 | ↑ +822% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $12,750.00 | ↑ +3135% |
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2nd order venous cath at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,806.24 | $795.10 – $3,975.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,725.72 | $71.00 – $4,088.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,128.64 | $71.00 – $2,660.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,806.24 | $748.33 – $3,975.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,725.72 | $85.00 – $4,088.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,725.72 | $1,408.29 – $4,088.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,128.64 | $71.00 – $3,192.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,806.24 | $748.33 – $3,975.51 |