Albuterol non-comp unit at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$3.31
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.
$9.45
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.
$0.08 with Cigna vs $6.34 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 |
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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.08 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $0.16 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $0.18 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.18 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $0.18 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $0.22 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $0.26 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1.42 | ↓ -57% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $4.73 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.34 | ↑ +92% |
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Albuterol non-comp unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $7.18 | $0.31 – $0.31 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $2.28 | $0.07 – $11.70 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $13.23 | $0.08 – $0.39 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $2.28 | $0.07 – $11.05 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $2.28 | $0.07 – $14.43 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $2.28 | $0.07 – $11.70 |
| Ascension Providence | Waco | $1.62 | $0.05 – $0.28 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $6.06 | $0.11 – $0.11 |