Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$59.98
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.
$171.36
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.
$24.89 with United vs $171.36 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 | $24.89 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $25.71 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.50 | ↓ -39% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.50 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $36.50 | ↓ -39% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $38.07 | ↓ -37% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $38.07 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -31% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -31% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -31% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -31% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $42.62 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $42.62 | ↓ -29% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $42.62 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $43.45 | ↓ -28% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↓ -26% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↓ -26% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $49.01 | ↓ -18% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $51.01 | ↓ -15% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $51.01 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $58.27 | ↓ -3% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $60.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $62.07 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $63.73 | ↑ +6% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $64.14 | ↑ +7% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.28 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $85.68 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $99.73 | ↑ +66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $102.82 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $103.45 | ↑ +72% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $107.59 | ↑ +79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $116.49 | ↑ +94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $137.78 | ↑ +130% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $144.83 | ↑ +141% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $147.73 | ↑ +146% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $171.36 | ↑ +186% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $125.69 | $33.02 – $269.33 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $32.38 | $37.38 – $166.50 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $30.15 | $34.76 – $180.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $32.38 | $34.76 – $157.25 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |