Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$230.58
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.
$658.80
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.
$39.53 with TCHP vs $3,705.57 with Entrust — 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 | $39.53 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $39.53 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $52.97 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $52.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $98.82 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $120.96 | ↓ -48% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $329.40 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $501.00 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $1,346.67 | ↑ +484% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $1,385.99 | ↑ +501% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +575% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +575% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +575% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +575% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↑ +575% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↑ +595% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↑ +595% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↑ +595% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,633.76 | ↑ +609% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +622% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +622% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $1,729.00 | ↑ +650% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,803.00 | ↑ +682% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,256.14 | ↑ +878% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +912% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $2,348.83 | ↑ +919% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↑ +920% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,396.18 | ↑ +939% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,411.74 | ↑ +946% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,626.12 | ↑ +1039% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,640.00 | ↑ +1045% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,789.23 | ↑ +1110% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3,563.05 | ↑ +1445% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $3,705.57 | ↑ +1507% |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,754.69 | $2,038.91 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,835.30 | $520.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,584.85 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,653.31 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,835.30 | $489.41 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,584.85 | $85.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,584.85 | $818.84 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,653.31 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |