MRI w/cont, breast, uni at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$1,014.65
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.
$2,899.00
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.
$178.31 with HUMANA vs $1,449.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -82% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -82% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -82% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $183.66 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $183.66 | ↓ -82% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $183.66 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $187.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $190.79 | ↓ -81% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $190.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $258.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $267.47 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $274.60 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $276.38 | ↓ -73% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $298.72 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $300.00 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $348.04 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $402.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $434.85 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $452.60 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $462.84 | ↓ -54% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $470.70 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $497.46 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $555.77 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $609.10 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $677.34 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $846.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $1,449.50 | ↑ +43% |
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MRI w/cont, breast, uni at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $905.10 | $218.66 – $2,586.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $302.40 | $220.15 – $2,011.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $711.60 | $342.57 – $4,269.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $905.10 | $256.93 – $2,586.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $905.10 | $256.93 – $2,586.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $302.40 | $413.64 – $2,011.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $905.10 | $256.93 – $2,586.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $302.40 | $413.64 – $2,011.00 |