Brain image w/flow < 4 views at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$488.88
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.
$1,396.80
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.
$83.81 with TCHP vs $1,123.03 with Wellpoint — 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 | $83.81 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $112.31 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $202.81 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $209.52 | ↓ -57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $212.95 | ↓ -56% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $212.95 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $212.95 | ↓ -56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $219.28 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $271.77 | ↓ -44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $285.96 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $380.66 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -18% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -18% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -18% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -18% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $402.48 | ↓ -18% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $414.55 | ↓ -15% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $414.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $414.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $422.60 | ↓ -14% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $430.65 | ↓ -12% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $430.65 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $446.98 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $474.92 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $482.63 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $506.22 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $536.70 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $544.09 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $558.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $583.60 | ↑ +19% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $603.72 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $607.87 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $619.82 | ↑ +27% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $620.60 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $623.84 | ↑ +28% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $630.40 | ↑ +29% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $698.40 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $838.08 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $955.15 | ↑ +95% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $993.36 | ↑ +103% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,123.03 | ↑ +130% |
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Brain image w/flow < 4 views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,063.48 | $196.80 – $1,329.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,694.19 | $541.75 – $4,041.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,905.29 | $196.80 – $2,381.61 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,063.48 | $196.80 – $1,329.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,694.19 | $210.58 – $4,041.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,694.19 | $196.80 – $4,041.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,905.29 | $196.80 – $2,857.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,063.48 | $196.80 – $1,329.35 |