Frozen blood freeze/thaw at St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital
210 South Judson Street, Navasota, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1154317774
$99.23
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.
$567.00
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.
$31.11 with United vs $629.37 with Ellwood — 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $31.11 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $56.21 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $71.49 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $117.34 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $117.34 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $119.68 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $138.07 | ↑ +39% |
| PGT | Medicare|All Plans | $205.60 | ↑ +107% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $209.79 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $209.79 | ↑ +111% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $213.99 | ↑ +116% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $216.09 | ↑ +118% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $218.93 | ↑ +121% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $224.48 | ↑ +126% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $267.91 | ↑ +170% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $298.45 | ↑ +201% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $304.20 | ↑ +207% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $311.85 | ↑ +214% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $314.69 | ↑ +217% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $317.52 | ↑ +220% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $318.94 | ↑ +221% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $345.87 | ↑ +249% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $396.90 | ↑ +300% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $433.99 | ↑ +337% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $481.95 | ↑ +386% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $629.37 | ↑ +534% |
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Frozen blood freeze/thaw at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $99.23 | $31.11 – $510.30 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $99.23 | $31.11 – $481.95 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $99.23 | $31.11 – $510.30 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $128.71 – $128.71 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $33.84 – $1,066.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $33.84 – $1,066.85 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $145.75 – $224.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $33.84 – $1,066.85 |