MRI chest w IV cont at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$1,421.28
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.
$4,060.80
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.
$243.65 with TCHP vs $2,512.23 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $243.65 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $326.49 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $392.60 | ↓ -72% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $404.51 | ↓ -72% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $404.51 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $404.51 | ↓ -72% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $454.34 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $526.08 | ↓ -63% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $543.20 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $609.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $764.00 | ↓ -46% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -43% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $830.91 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $846.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -40% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,000.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,147.44 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,177.82 | ↓ -17% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↓ -16% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,201.36 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,218.66 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,226.58 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,340.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,624.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,812.75 | ↑ +28% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $1,885.26 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,991.09 | ↑ +40% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $2,030.40 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $2,096.93 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $2,209.29 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,246.71 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,512.23 | ↑ +77% |
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MRI chest w IV cont at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,581.08 | $385.25 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,325.74 | $478.72 – $3,488.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,584.06 | $385.25 – $3,230.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,581.08 | $385.25 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,325.74 | $412.22 – $3,488.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,325.74 | $385.25 – $3,488.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,584.06 | $385.25 – $3,876.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $1,581.08 | $385.25 – $2,149.00 |