Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$97.92
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.
$279.75
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.
$41.97 with Aetna vs $436.41 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 | $41.97 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.08 | ↓ -46% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.08 | ↓ -46% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $53.16 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $53.16 | ↓ -46% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $53.16 | ↓ -46% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $53.16 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $53.16 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $54.61 | ↓ -44% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $54.75 | ↓ -44% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $54.75 | ↓ -44% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $54.75 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $55.82 | ↓ -43% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $56.88 | ↓ -42% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $56.88 | ↓ -42% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $71.13 | ↓ -27% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $71.13 | ↓ -27% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $77.08 | ↓ -21% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $79.74 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $81.87 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $82.40 | ↓ -16% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $85.88 | ↓ -12% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $111.90 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $128.30 | ↑ +31% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $130.13 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $139.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $139.88 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $142.56 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $143.71 | ↑ +47% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $162.42 | ↑ +66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $167.34 | ↑ +71% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $181.84 | ↑ +86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $181.84 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $201.42 | ↑ +106% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $205.92 | ↑ +110% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $436.41 | ↑ +346% |
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Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,229.57 | $239.51 – $4,826.69 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $145.15 | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $2,717.27 | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $1,587.43 | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $18.20 | $4.21 – $33.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $2,269.56 | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $18.20 | $5.61 – $33.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $18.20 | $5.61 – $36.63 |