Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$1,321.43
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.
$3,775.50
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.
$302.06 with CHC vs $2,640.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $302.06 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $352.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $352.37 | ↓ -73% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $352.37 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $369.99 | ↓ -72% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $369.99 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $369.99 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $472.18 | ↓ -64% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $472.18 | ↓ -64% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $472.18 | ↓ -64% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $496.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $566.33 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $833.08 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $868.00 | ↓ -34% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -29% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -29% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $967.25 | ↓ -27% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $967.25 | ↓ -27% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $967.25 | ↓ -27% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $986.03 | ↓ -25% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,004.82 | ↓ -24% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $1,004.82 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,018.58 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,048.32 | ↓ -21% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,078.25 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $1,131.72 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,265.33 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,343.92 | ↑ +2% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,353.15 | ↑ +2% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,361.67 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,408.62 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,446.18 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,455.57 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,803.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $1,887.75 | ↑ +43% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $2,050.22 | ↑ +55% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $2,132.23 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,640.00 | ↑ +100% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,666.30 | $71.00 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,457.75 | $71.00 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,666.30 | $85.00 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,666.30 | $334.95 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,457.75 | $71.00 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |