Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$123.87
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.
$353.90
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.
$28.49 with Aetna vs $296.20 with CHC — 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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| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $28.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $52.79 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.08 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.08 | ↓ -57% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $62.66 | ↓ -49% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $71.13 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $71.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $75.95 | ↓ -39% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $94.94 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $123.18 | ↓ -1% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $123.42 | ↓ -0% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $123.42 | ↓ -0% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $130.13 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $136.71 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $136.86 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $139.35 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $143.71 | ↑ +16% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $162.42 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $167.34 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $189.87 | ↑ +53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $296.20 | ↑ +139% |
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Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,217.81 | $239.51 – $4,826.69 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $275.26 | $67.81 – $288.23 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $142.90 | $42.54 – $193.35 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $18.20 | $13.25 – $93.59 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $763.44 | $5.46 – $47.77 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $142.90 | $42.54 – $193.35 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $142.90 | $42.54 – $193.35 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $18.20 | $17.68 – $88.39 |