Carcinoembryonic ag (cea) at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$133.70
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.
$382.00
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.
$15.93 with TCHP vs $307.13 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 | $15.93 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.93 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.02 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.73 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.73 | ↓ -87% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.73 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $18.59 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $18.96 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $18.96 | ↓ -86% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $18.96 | ↓ -86% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $18.96 | ↓ -86% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.96 | ↓ -86% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $19.53 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $19.53 | ↓ -85% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $19.53 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $19.91 | ↓ -85% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $20.29 | ↓ -85% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $20.29 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $21.35 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $21.35 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $22.46 | ↓ -83% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $27.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $28.44 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $29.20 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $29.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $31.28 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $45.69 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $47.40 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $48.75 | ↓ -64% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $49.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $57.30 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $66.36 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $67.69 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $71.63 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $79.44 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $79.59 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $79.93 | ↓ -40% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $191.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $229.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $307.13 | ↑ +130% |
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Carcinoembryonic ag (cea) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $326.49 | $17.06 – $73.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $340.80 | $10.00 – $200.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $340.80 | $12.00 – $201.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $340.80 | $12.00 – $217.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $340.80 | $10.00 – $200.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $340.80 | $12.00 – $201.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $340.80 | $8.00 – $201.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $340.80 | $12.00 – $260.87 |