ER Visit (level 2) at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$520.80
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.
$1,488.00
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.
$51.36 with UNITED vs $1,811.00 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 | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $53.93 | ↓ -90% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $53.93 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $89.28 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $89.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $95.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $95.00 | ↓ -82% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -70% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $163.38 | ↓ -69% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $163.38 | ↓ -69% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $163.38 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $166.55 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.72 | ↓ -67% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $169.72 | ↓ -67% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $219.66 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $223.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $230.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.93 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $244.27 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $245.86 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $246.81 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $274.23 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $276.00 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $301.99 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $319.90 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $332.82 | ↓ -36% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $346.14 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $363.41 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $505.92 | ↓ -3% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $595.20 | ↑ +14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $595.20 | ↑ +14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $595.20 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $744.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $941.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,811.00 | ↑ +248% |
Visitor-reported prices
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ER Visit (level 2) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $873.97 | $492.65 – $492.65 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $469.39 | $132.99 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $481.37 | $99.08 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $561.69 | $112.34 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $469.39 | $125.17 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $481.37 | $146.53 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $481.37 | $248.71 – $1,185.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $561.69 | $146.53 – $1,185.00 |