Gw stiffened micro access kit at St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital
100 West Cross Street, Madisonville, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1780731737
$3,784.55
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.
$21,626.00
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.
$1.41 with PGT vs $19.14 with United — 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 | $1.41 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1.43 | ↓ -100% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1.43 | ↓ -100% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1.46 | ↓ -100% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1.48 | ↓ -100% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1.54 | ↓ -100% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3.82 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $4.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $4.62 | ↓ -100% |
| NX Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $5.39 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $6.05 | ↓ -100% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $6.71 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.04 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $7.26 | ↓ -100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $9.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $9.90 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $11.00 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $11.60 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $12.76 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $14.50 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $15.66 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $16.82 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.14 | ↓ -99% |
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Gw stiffened micro access kit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $17,065.86 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $1,167.60 | $0.01 – $1,071.53 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $19,766.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1,231.02 | $10.24 – $151.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $3,784.55 | $5.39 – $40.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |