Ascenda two piece catheter at St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital
100 West Cross Street, Madisonville, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1780731737
$23,446.50
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.
$133,980.00
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.
$5,250.92 with PGT vs $41,216.00 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 |
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| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $5,250.92 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,358.08 | ↓ -77% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,358.08 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,465.25 | ↓ -77% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,518.83 | ↓ -76% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5,733.15 | ↓ -76% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $7,769.22 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8,037.12 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8,243.20 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $9,067.52 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $10,304.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $10,386.44 | ↓ -56% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10,716.16 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $11,128.32 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $11,952.64 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $12,776.96 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,601.28 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $14,281.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $16,074.24 | ↓ -31% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $17,310.72 | ↓ -26% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17,413.76 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $22,668.80 | ↓ -3% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $24,729.60 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $25,141.76 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26,378.24 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $27,202.56 | ↑ +16% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $35,033.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $37,094.40 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $41,216.00 | ↑ +76% |
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Ascenda two piece catheter at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $18,583.01 | $8,030.61 – $28,680.75 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $23,446.50 | $8,243.20 – $35,033.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $23,446.50 | $8,243.20 – $45,749.76 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |