Apheresis wbc at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$1,024.45
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.
$2,927.00
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.
$439.05 with Aetna vs $3,723.00 with Cigna — 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 | $439.05 | ↓ -57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $463.85 | ↓ -55% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $593.98 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $593.98 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $593.98 | ↓ -42% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $623.68 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $623.68 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $623.68 | ↓ -39% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $795.93 | ↓ -22% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $795.93 | ↓ -22% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $795.93 | ↓ -22% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $837.51 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $868.00 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,403.04 | ↑ +37% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $1,463.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↑ +60% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↑ +60% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↑ +60% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↑ +60% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,673.78 | ↑ +63% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $1,691.20 | ↑ +65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,691.20 | ↑ +65% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,691.20 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,722.65 | ↑ +68% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,724.04 | ↑ +68% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $1,756.88 | ↑ +71% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,756.88 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,817.58 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $1,906.01 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,131.03 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,263.39 | ↑ +121% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,280.98 | ↑ +123% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,380.81 | ↑ +132% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,462.91 | ↑ +140% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,528.59 | ↑ +147% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,545.01 | ↑ +148% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,640.00 | ↑ +158% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3,456.03 | ↑ +237% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,594.27 | ↑ +251% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,723.00 | ↑ +263% |
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Apheresis wbc at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,347.60 | $564.62 – $4,184.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,342.71 | $604.14 – $5,014.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,961.82 | $564.62 – $3,800.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,347.60 | $564.62 – $4,184.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,342.71 | $604.14 – $5,014.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,342.71 | $564.62 – $5,014.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,961.82 | $564.62 – $4,442.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $3,347.60 | $564.62 – $4,184.50 |