Iron binding capacity at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$12.60
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.
$36.00
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.
$5.40 with Aetna vs $36.31 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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| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.40 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.34 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.34 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.38 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.71 | ↓ -39% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.71 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.71 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.57 | ↓ -32% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -31% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -31% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -31% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -29% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -29% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $9.18 | ↓ -27% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $9.35 | ↓ -26% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $9.35 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $9.84 | ↓ -22% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $9.84 | ↓ -22% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $10.35 | ↓ -18% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $12.67 | ↑ +1% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $13.11 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $13.46 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $13.55 | ↑ +8% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14.42 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $21.06 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $21.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $21.85 | ↑ +73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $22.46 | ↑ +78% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $22.72 | ↑ +80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $28.95 | ↑ +130% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $30.59 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $31.20 | ↑ +148% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $33.02 | ↑ +162% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $36.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $36.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $36.31 | ↑ +188% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Iron binding capacity at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $160.38 | $7.87 – $33.65 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $98.05 | $7.34 – $122.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $100.85 | $12.00 – $151.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $89.65 | $7.34 – $112.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $98.05 | $7.34 – $122.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $100.85 | $7.85 – $151.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $100.85 | $7.34 – $151.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $89.65 | $7.34 – $134.47 |