Strapping of chest at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$41.58
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.
$118.80
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.
$0.40 with Cigna vs $372.29 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.40 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $12.34 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.60 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.60 | ↓ -60% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.60 | ↓ -60% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $17.43 | ↓ -58% |
| SUPERIOR | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.43 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $17.82 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $19.90 | ↓ -52% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $22.24 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $22.24 | ↓ -47% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $22.24 | ↓ -47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $23.41 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $23.67 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $24.36 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $27.03 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $30.22 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $32.10 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $50.80 | ↑ +22% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $59.40 | ↑ +43% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +280% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +280% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +280% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +280% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↑ +280% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $162.79 | ↑ +292% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $162.79 | ↑ +292% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $162.79 | ↑ +292% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $165.95 | ↑ +299% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↑ +307% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↑ +307% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.00 | ↑ +405% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $229.17 | ↑ +451% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $236.26 | ↑ +468% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.08 | ↑ +470% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $243.40 | ↑ +485% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $244.98 | ↑ +489% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $357.98 | ↑ +761% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $372.29 | ↑ +795% |
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Strapping of chest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $226.35 | $15.78 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $196.93 | $16.88 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $196.93 | $15.78 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $226.35 | $15.78 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $196.93 | $16.88 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $196.93 | $15.78 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $196.93 | $15.78 – $390.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $226.35 | $15.78 – $390.34 |