#creutz-prot.,western blot at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$31.85
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$91.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$13.65 with Aetna vs $122.03 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13.65 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.20 | ↓ -52% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.54 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.54 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.77 | ↓ -19% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.77 | ↓ -19% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $25.77 | ↓ -19% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.77 | ↓ -19% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -8% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -8% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -8% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -8% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $30.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $30.09 | ↓ -6% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $30.09 | ↓ -6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $30.67 | ↓ -4% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $31.25 | ↓ -2% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $31.25 | ↓ -2% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $32.88 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $32.88 | ↑ +3% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $34.60 | ↑ +9% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $42.35 | ↑ +33% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $43.82 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $44.98 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $45.28 | ↑ +42% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $45.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $48.20 | ↑ +51% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $54.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $70.40 | ↑ +121% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $73.03 | ↑ +129% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $73.17 | ↑ +130% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $75.09 | ↑ +136% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $75.95 | ↑ +138% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $89.38 | ↑ +181% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $91.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $91.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $91.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $91.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $122.03 | ↑ +283% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $446.73 | $10.00 – $106.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $446.73 | $12.00 – $127.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $446.73 | $12.00 – $106.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $446.73 | $10.00 – $106.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $446.73 | $12.00 – $127.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $446.73 | $8.00 – $127.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $446.73 | $12.00 – $127.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $446.73 | $10.00 – $106.00 |