MRI w/cont, breast, bi at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$1,492.40
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.
$4,264.00
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.
$300.00 with Wellpoint vs $2,132.00 with Health First — 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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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $300.00 | ↓ -80% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -76% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -76% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -76% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -75% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $375.60 | ↓ -75% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -74% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $402.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $518.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $550.87 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $554.45 | ↓ -63% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $615.81 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $639.60 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $729.33 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $846.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $933.05 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $969.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $970.37 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,042.45 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,099.85 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,164.64 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,223.07 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,705.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $2,132.00 | ↑ +43% |
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MRI w/cont, breast, bi at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $13,295.12 | $672.06 – $699.43 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $17,966.06 | $672.06 – $699.43 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,885.45 | $458.22 – $5,387.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $472.50 | $343.98 – $2,430.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $674.85 | $400.00 – $4,049.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $10,610.87 | $672.06 – $699.43 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,885.45 | $538.41 – $5,387.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1,885.45 | $538.41 – $5,387.00 |