Critical care each additional 30 minutes at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$481.60
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.
$1,376.00
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.
$82.56 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 | $82.56 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $82.56 | ↓ -83% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.69 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.69 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $110.64 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $110.64 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $206.40 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $224.55 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $249.50 | ↓ -48% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $252.64 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $267.91 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $283.80 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $322.40 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $358.72 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $467.84 | ↓ -3% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $550.40 | ↑ +14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $550.40 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $688.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $737.54 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,687.00 | ↑ +1081% |
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Critical care each additional 30 minutes at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,597.43 | $437.05 – $437.05 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $845.09 | $239.44 – $3,000.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $686.86 | $141.38 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,013.20 | $202.64 – $7,280.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $845.09 | $225.36 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $686.86 | $220.48 – $10,880.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $686.86 | $354.88 – $1,030.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,013.20 | $337.73 – $7,280.00 |