Ghs insertion of needle - bone at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$126.95
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.
$362.70
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.
$0.40 with Cigna vs $3,635.00 with Aetna — 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.40 | ↓ -100% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.77 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.77 | ↓ -83% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.86 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.86 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $29.17 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $29.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $54.41 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $66.60 | ↓ -48% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $145.08 | ↑ +14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $145.08 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $181.35 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $194.41 | ↑ +53% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.00 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $385.41 | ↑ +204% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +215% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +215% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +215% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +215% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +215% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +224% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +224% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +224% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $419.67 | ↑ +231% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +237% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +237% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $452.11 | ↑ +256% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $453.87 | ↑ +258% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $465.31 | ↑ +267% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $523.57 | ↑ +312% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $579.55 | ↑ +357% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $585.38 | ↑ +361% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $599.54 | ↑ +372% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $615.52 | ↑ +385% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $619.52 | ↑ +388% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $621.74 | ↑ +390% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $687.67 | ↑ +442% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $715.18 | ↑ +463% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,635.00 | ↑ +2763% |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $461.99 | $85.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $461.99 | $238.70 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $356.00 | $71.00 – $987.04 |