J-tube placement at St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital
210 South Judson Street, Navasota, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1154317774
$99.75
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.
$570.00
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.
$206.69 with PGT vs $4,859.00 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 | $206.69 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $208.38 | ↑ +109% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage HMO | $209.86 | ↑ +110% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $210.90 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $210.90 | ↑ +111% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $215.12 | ↑ +116% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $217.23 | ↑ +118% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $223.26 | ↑ +124% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $225.67 | ↑ +126% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $245.59 | ↑ +146% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $261.63 | ↑ +162% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $269.33 | ↑ +170% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $279.30 | ↑ +180% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Local Plus | $279.30 | ↑ +180% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $305.81 | ↑ +207% |
| Health Smart | Commercial|All Plans | $313.50 | ↑ +214% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $316.35 | ↑ +217% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $319.20 | ↑ +220% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $320.63 | ↑ +221% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $347.70 | ↑ +249% |
| Entrust | Commercial|All Plans | $399.00 | ↑ +300% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $436.28 | ↑ +337% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $484.50 | ↑ +386% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Ref Lab | $570.00 | ↑ +471% |
| Ellwood | Commercial|All Plans | $632.70 | ↑ +534% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $697.68 | ↑ +599% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,476.00 | ↑ +2382% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,859.00 | ↑ +4771% |
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J-tube placement at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $99.75 | $72.62 – $570.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $99.75 | $46.52 – $570.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $99.75 | $125.40 – $570.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $186.05 – $4,826.69 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $1,364.86 – $1,364.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,364.86 – $1,364.86 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $175.02 – $317.03 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $1,364.86 – $1,364.86 |