Hepatitis c rna dir probe at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$49.63
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.
$141.78
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.
$16.93 with United vs $130.81 with BCBS-TX — 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 | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.93 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $20.10 | ↓ -60% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $26.22 | ↓ -47% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $26.22 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.53 | ↓ -45% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.53 | ↓ -45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $27.53 | ↓ -45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $27.53 | ↓ -45% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $31.22 | ↓ -37% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $31.22 | ↓ -37% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $31.22 | ↓ -37% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $31.22 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $31.22 | ↓ -37% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $32.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $32.16 | ↓ -35% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $32.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $32.78 | ↓ -34% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $33.41 | ↓ -33% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $33.41 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $35.13 | ↓ -29% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $35.13 | ↓ -29% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $36.97 | ↓ -26% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $45.27 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $46.83 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $48.08 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $48.39 | ↓ -2% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $51.51 | ↑ +4% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $67.00 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $75.24 | ↑ +52% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $78.05 | ↑ +57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $80.23 | ↑ +62% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $80.40 | ↑ +62% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $81.17 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $95.53 | ↑ +92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $106.15 | ↑ +114% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $107.74 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $109.27 | ↑ +120% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $111.46 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $130.76 | ↑ +163% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $130.81 | ↑ +164% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hepatitis c rna dir probe at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $28.10 – $120.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $25.70 – $128.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $26.22 – $128.25 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $68.18 – $136.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $25.70 – $128.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $25.70 – $128.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $26.22 – $128.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | not published | $26.22 – $128.25 |