Bundled special stain group 2 at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$172.55
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.
$493.00
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.
$10.24 with United vs $294.74 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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| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $23.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.38 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $56.13 | ↓ -67% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $56.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $78.50 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $80.57 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $85.78 | ↓ -50% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $89.21 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $94.20 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $97.31 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $108.12 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $117.01 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $119.35 | ↓ -31% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $126.23 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -25% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -25% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -25% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -25% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -25% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -23% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $135.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -20% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $140.07 | ↓ -19% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $187.21 | ↑ +8% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $198.83 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $200.12 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $294.74 | ↑ +71% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $238.37 | $128.71 – $128.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $306.90 | $35.00 – $287.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $306.90 | $36.00 – $265.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $306.90 | $34.41 – $215.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $306.90 | $35.00 – $287.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $306.90 | $36.00 – $265.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $306.90 | $26.00 – $265.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $306.90 | $36.00 – $258.08 |