Low cost skin substitute app at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$208.95
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.
$597.00
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.
$89.55 with Aetna vs $8,670.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $89.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $298.50 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $868.00 | ↑ +315% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,720.10 | ↑ +723% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,832.19 | ↑ +777% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,832.19 | ↑ +777% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,832.19 | ↑ +777% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,832.19 | ↑ +777% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,832.19 | ↑ +777% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $1,887.16 | ↑ +803% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,887.16 | ↑ +803% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,887.16 | ↑ +803% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,923.80 | ↑ +821% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $1,960.44 | ↑ +838% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,960.44 | ↑ +838% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $2,148.75 | ↑ +928% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $2,211.49 | ↑ +958% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $2,336.75 | ↑ +1018% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,612.61 | ↑ +1150% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,640.00 | ↑ +1163% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,656.68 | ↑ +1171% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,748.29 | ↑ +1215% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,774.89 | ↑ +1228% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,821.57 | ↑ +1250% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,839.89 | ↑ +1259% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,864.28 | ↑ +1271% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4,339.82 | ↑ +1977% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $4,513.42 | ↑ +2060% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $8,670.00 | ↑ +4049% |
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Low cost skin substitute app at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,431.38 | $1,660.87 – $4,524.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $211.23 | $153.78 – $1,207.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $211.23 | $663.85 – $1,207.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $211.23 | $437.66 – $1,339.77 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $2,431.38 | $1,688.91 – $16,636.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $211.23 | $265.54 – $1,207.00 |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | $2,301.18 | $3,261.71 – $4,837.00 |
| Covenant Hospital Levelland | Levelland | $2,295.30 | $4,837.00 – $5,980.61 |