Contrast x-ray of brain at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$1,185.03
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.
$3,385.80
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.
$143.49 with CHC vs $2,076.50 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 |
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| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $143.49 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $169.08 | ↓ -86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $174.72 | ↓ -85% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $174.72 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $174.72 | ↓ -85% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $203.15 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $226.57 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $234.62 | ↓ -80% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $272.22 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $498.17 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $507.87 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $517.38 | ↓ -56% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -33% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -33% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -31% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -31% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -31% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $830.91 | ↓ -30% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -29% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,000.00 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,083.46 | ↓ -9% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,147.44 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,151.18 | ↓ -3% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↑ +0% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,218.66 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,226.58 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,300.37 | ↑ +10% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,340.00 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,643.33 | ↑ +39% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $1,692.90 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $1,729.28 | ↑ +46% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,812.75 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,827.44 | ↑ +54% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,858.64 | ↑ +57% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,885.26 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,076.50 | ↑ +75% |
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Contrast x-ray of brain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,336.32 | $166.40 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,718.20 | $353.66 – $2,577.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,050.99 | $166.40 – $2,563.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,336.32 | $166.40 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,718.20 | $178.05 – $2,577.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,718.20 | $166.40 – $2,577.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,050.99 | $166.40 – $3,076.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,336.32 | $166.40 – $1,983.49 |