3-d radiotherapy plan at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$7,729.75
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.
$22,085.00
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.
$944.95 with BCBS-TX vs $11,042.50 with Health First — 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $944.95 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $956.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,000.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,048.39 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $1,089.64 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,157.57 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,304.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,340.00 | ↓ -83% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -82% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -82% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,411.59 | ↓ -82% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $1,411.59 | ↓ -82% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,411.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,439.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $1,466.41 | ↓ -81% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,466.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,987.20 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,055.72 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,110.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,111.74 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,124.24 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3,199.60 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,312.75 | ↓ -57% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,327.58 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,067.20 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,508.90 | ↓ -3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8,834.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $11,042.50 | ↑ +43% |
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3-d radiotherapy plan at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,482.48 | $423.90 – $6,853.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,482.19 | $1,059.75 – $8,223.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,002.69 | $1,000.54 – $6,253.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,482.48 | $260.86 – $6,853.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $5,482.19 | $1,290.72 – $8,223.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $5,482.19 | $2,832.46 – $8,223.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $5,002.69 | $1,059.75 – $7,504.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $5,482.48 | $423.90 – $6,853.10 |