Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$582.05
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.
$1,663.00
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.
$34.73 with CHC vs $1,337.06 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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| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $34.73 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $40.10 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $42.10 | ↓ -93% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $42.10 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $42.10 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $53.73 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $56.54 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $99.78 | ↓ -83% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -82% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -82% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -82% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -81% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $111.84 | ↓ -81% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -80% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $122.71 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $126.24 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $133.71 | ↓ -77% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $154.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $164.03 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $165.09 | ↓ -72% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $214.07 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $249.45 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $275.85 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $275.85 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $284.68 | ↓ -51% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $286.88 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $305.98 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $306.75 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $341.84 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $532.16 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $565.42 | ↓ -3% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $831.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $997.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,337.06 | ↑ +130% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) X-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $620.07 | $431.51 – $431.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $384.07 | $79.05 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $474.69 | $40.10 – $593.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $337.54 | $40.10 – $421.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $384.07 | $42.91 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $384.07 | $40.10 – $576.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $474.69 | $40.10 – $712.03 |