Clearance of airways at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$73.15
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.
$209.00
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.
$31.35 with Aetna vs $3,635.00 with Aetna — 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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| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.35 | ↓ -57% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $104.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $195.00 | ↑ +167% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +178% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +178% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +178% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +178% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +178% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $209.83 | ↑ +187% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $209.83 | ↑ +187% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $209.83 | ↑ +187% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.00 | ↑ +187% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $213.91 | ↑ +192% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $217.98 | ↑ +198% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $217.98 | ↑ +198% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $255.34 | ↑ +249% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $262.80 | ↑ +259% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $264.90 | ↑ +262% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $295.39 | ↑ +304% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $296.18 | ↑ +305% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $305.58 | ↑ +318% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $313.73 | ↑ +329% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $314.34 | ↑ +330% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $314.57 | ↑ +330% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $315.77 | ↑ +332% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $476.27 | ↑ +551% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $495.33 | ↑ +577% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,803.00 | ↑ +2365% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,635.00 | ↑ +4869% |
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Clearance of airways at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $278.30 | $78.85 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $203.35 | $41.86 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $246.73 | $49.35 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $278.30 | $74.21 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $203.35 | $65.27 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $203.35 | $105.06 – $3,235.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $246.73 | $71.00 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $278.30 | $74.21 – $528.37 |