Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step clostridium difficile toxin at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$78.75
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.
$225.00
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.
$10.06 with TCHP vs $180.90 with Wellpoint — 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 | $10.06 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.06 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.13 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -87% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.56 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $11.75 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -85% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -85% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -85% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -85% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $12.34 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $12.34 | ↓ -84% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $12.34 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $12.58 | ↓ -84% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↓ -84% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $13.48 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $13.48 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $14.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $17.37 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $17.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $18.45 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $18.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $19.77 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $28.87 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $29.95 | ↓ -62% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $30.78 | ↓ -61% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $31.15 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $33.75 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $41.93 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $42.77 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $45.29 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $50.20 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $50.32 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $50.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $112.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $180.90 | ↑ +130% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step clostridium difficile toxin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $265.55 | $10.78 – $46.12 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $127.01 | $10.00 – $158.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $119.91 | $12.00 – $179.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $147.65 | $10.06 – $184.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $127.01 | $10.00 – $158.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $119.91 | $10.76 – $179.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $119.91 | $8.00 – $179.87 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $147.65 | $10.06 – $221.47 |