Echo stress at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$988.47
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.
$2,824.20
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.
$169.46 with TCHP vs $1,412.10 with Health First — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $169.46 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $185.11 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $186.30 | ↓ -81% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $194.37 | ↓ -80% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $194.37 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $194.37 | ↓ -80% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $227.07 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $248.05 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $261.01 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $275.00 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $279.83 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $296.43 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $305.56 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $336.74 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $374.68 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $423.63 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -44% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -44% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -44% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $566.44 | ↓ -43% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $576.65 | ↓ -42% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -41% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -41% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $796.33 | ↓ -19% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $808.04 | ↓ -18% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $845.75 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $851.24 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $903.75 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $960.23 | ↓ -3% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,224.30 | ↑ +24% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,273.27 | ↑ +29% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $1,412.10 | ↑ +43% |
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Echo stress at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,144.62 | $182.78 – $2,680.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,004.21 | $358.08 – $4,506.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,350.85 | $182.78 – $2,938.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,144.62 | $182.78 – $2,680.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,004.21 | $195.57 – $4,506.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,004.21 | $182.78 – $4,506.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,350.85 | $182.78 – $3,526.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,144.62 | $182.78 – $2,680.78 |