Brain image w/flow 4 + views at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$572.67
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.
$1,636.20
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.
$98.18 with TCHP vs $1,315.51 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 | $98.18 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $131.56 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $245.43 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $304.73 | ↓ -47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $319.97 | ↓ -44% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $319.97 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $319.97 | ↓ -44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $333.30 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $408.34 | ↓ -29% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $429.67 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $523.59 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -6% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -6% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -6% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -6% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $539.14 | ↓ -6% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↓ -3% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↓ -3% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $555.31 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $556.31 | ↓ -3% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $566.10 | ↓ -1% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $576.88 | ↑ +1% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $576.88 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $592.67 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $654.48 | ↑ +14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $758.52 | ↑ +32% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $781.75 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $788.16 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $808.71 | ↑ +41% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $818.10 | ↑ +43% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $818.35 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $830.28 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $835.67 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $843.50 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $847.12 | ↑ +48% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $932.47 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $946.42 | ↑ +65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $981.72 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,239.92 | ↑ +117% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,289.52 | ↑ +125% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,315.51 | ↑ +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 | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,337.97 | $481.23 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,376.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,337.97 | $316.40 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,337.97 | $295.70 – $3,506.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,901.40 | $295.70 – $2,852.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,553.68 | $295.70 – $1,942.10 |