Surgical pathology level 1 gross examination only at St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital
100 Medical Drive, Lake Jackson, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972581940
$33.95
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.
$97.00
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.
$10.24 with United vs $96.33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.24 | ↓ -70% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.19 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.55 | ↓ -57% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↓ -28% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↓ -28% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↓ -28% |
| WellcareTP | Medicare|All Plans | $25.27 | ↓ -26% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare|All Plans | $25.27 | ↓ -26% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $25.27 | ↓ -26% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $25.76 | ↓ -24% |
| Devoted | Medicare|All Plans | $26.25 | ↓ -23% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $26.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $32.98 | ↓ -3% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $35.57 | ↑ +5% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $36.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $37.78 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $38.02 | ↑ +12% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $41.32 | ↑ +22% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $46.31 | ↑ +36% |
| Health First | Commercial|All Plans | $48.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Options | $53.46 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $55.41 | ↑ +63% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $58.20 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Traditional | $59.40 | ↑ +75% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $62.60 | ↑ +84% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $65.10 | ↑ +92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $77.99 | ↑ +130% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO-POS | $80.47 | ↑ +137% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $82.07 | ↑ +142% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $96.33 | ↑ +184% |
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Surgical pathology level 1 gross examination only at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $369.31 | $88.51 – $88.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $110.02 | $27.61 – $137.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $139.48 | $28.71 – $209.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $113.42 | $22.68 – $141.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $110.02 | $27.61 – $137.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $139.48 | $27.61 – $209.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $139.48 | $26.00 – $209.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $113.42 | $27.61 – $170.14 |