Compatibility test each unit immediate spin technique at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$203.92
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.
$582.61
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.
$8.96 with United vs $582.61 with BCBS-TX — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.96 | ↓ -96% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.64 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $87.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $148.19 | ↓ -27% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -16% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -16% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -16% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -16% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $176.79 | ↓ -13% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $176.79 | ↓ -13% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $176.79 | ↓ -13% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $180.22 | ↓ -12% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $183.65 | ↓ -10% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $183.65 | ↓ -10% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +22% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $249.41 | ↑ +22% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $257.46 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $264.33 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $266.04 | ↑ +30% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $291.31 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $345.84 | ↑ +70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $349.57 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $377.90 | ↑ +85% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $393.02 | ↑ +93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $395.29 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $439.21 | ↑ +115% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $468.42 | ↑ +130% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $502.25 | ↑ +146% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $512.30 | ↑ +151% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $582.61 | ↑ +186% |
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $158.27 | $12.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $158.27 | $8.00 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $149.06 | $12.00 – $423.12 |