Brain image 4+ views at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$469.98
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.
$1,342.80
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.
$80.57 with TCHP vs $1,289.52 with Entrust — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $80.57 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $107.97 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $189.11 | ↓ -60% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $198.57 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $198.57 | ↓ -58% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $198.57 | ↓ -58% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $201.38 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $201.42 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $253.41 | ↓ -46% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $266.65 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $342.79 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $429.70 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $438.52 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $455.85 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $456.56 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $487.65 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $489.95 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $537.12 | ↑ +14% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↑ +15% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↑ +15% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↑ +15% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $547.38 | ↑ +16% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↑ +18% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↑ +18% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $566.10 | ↑ +20% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $576.88 | ↑ +23% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $576.88 | ↑ +23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $578.68 | ↑ +23% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $671.40 | ↑ +43% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $781.75 | ↑ +66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $805.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $808.71 | ↑ +72% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $818.35 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $830.28 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $835.67 | ↑ +78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,079.62 | ↑ +130% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,239.92 | ↑ +164% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,289.52 | ↑ +174% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,097.98 | $226.00 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,152.88 | $183.78 – $1,441.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,097.98 | $196.64 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,097.98 | $183.78 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,152.88 | $183.78 – $1,729.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $1,097.98 | $183.78 – $1,372.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $1,097.98 | $183.78 – $1,646.97 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $1,152.88 | $183.78 – $1,729.32 |