Critical care 30-74 minutes at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$2,534.35
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.
$7,241.00
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.
$434.46 with UNITED vs $5,687.00 with Cigna — 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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| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $434.46 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $434.46 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $456.19 | ↓ -82% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $456.19 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $582.18 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $582.18 | ↓ -77% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -67% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -67% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -67% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $869.30 | ↓ -66% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $869.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $869.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $886.18 | ↓ -65% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $903.06 | ↓ -64% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $903.06 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,086.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,223.77 | ↓ -52% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,245.65 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,265.97 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,299.73 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,308.17 | ↓ -48% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,329.45 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,452.59 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $1,573.32 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,613.99 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,666.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,887.35 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,893.31 | ↓ -25% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,962.84 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $2,106.65 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,461.94 | ↓ -3% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,896.40 | ↑ +14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,896.40 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,279.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $3,620.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $3,881.18 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,687.00 | ↑ +124% |
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Critical care 30-74 minutes at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $7,379.79 | $2,566.64 – $2,566.64 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,540.23 | $719.73 – $3,175.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,062.22 | $630.31 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,595.72 | $719.14 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,540.23 | $677.39 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,062.22 | $788.30 – $4,593.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,062.22 | $1,582.15 – $4,593.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,595.72 | $788.30 – $5,393.58 |