Ablate bone tumor(s) perq at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$5,347.65
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.
$15,279.00
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.
$896.00 with Aetna vs $41,884.89 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -83% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,523.24 | ↓ -53% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,523.24 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,523.24 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,523.24 | ↓ -53% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,523.24 | ↓ -53% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,573.70 | ↓ -52% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,573.70 | ↓ -52% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,573.70 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,649.40 | ↓ -50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,901.73 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,224.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3,381.14 | ↓ -37% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $3,381.14 | ↓ -37% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3,456.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↓ -32% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $3,885.79 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $4,125.33 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,300.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,300.00 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,343.00 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,823.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,823.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $5,024.84 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $5,243.00 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $5,503.39 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $5,527.95 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $6,264.39 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $6,875.55 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $7,181.13 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $7,639.50 | ↑ +43% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,872.51 | ↑ +47% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,872.51 | ↑ +47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $8,403.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8,403.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $8,403.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $9,167.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $9,167.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $9,279.12 | ↑ +74% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $9,931.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $9,931.35 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,931.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $9,931.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $9,931.35 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $9,989.86 | ↑ +87% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10,474.69 | ↑ +96% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $10,695.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $10,695.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $10,695.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $10,695.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11,459.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $11,612.04 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $12,203.18 | ↑ +128% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12,623.51 | ↑ +136% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $12,887.66 | ↑ +141% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $12,887.66 | ↑ +141% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $12,887.66 | ↑ +141% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $12,887.66 | ↑ +141% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $12,887.66 | ↑ +141% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $12,887.66 | ↑ +141% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $12,987.15 | ↑ +143% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $13,016.54 | ↑ +143% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $13,145.41 | ↑ +146% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $13,145.41 | ↑ +146% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $13,160.29 | ↑ +146% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $13,274.29 | ↑ +148% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $13,532.04 | ↑ +153% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $13,789.80 | ↑ +158% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $13,789.80 | ↑ +158% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $15,279.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $15,465.19 | ↑ +189% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $17,398.34 | ↑ +225% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $18,042.72 | ↑ +237% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $19,331.49 | ↑ +261% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19,331.49 | ↑ +261% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $19,331.49 | ↑ +261% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $19,331.49 | ↑ +261% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $19,331.49 | ↑ +261% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $19,847.00 | ↑ +271% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $41,884.89 | ↑ +683% |
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Ablate bone tumor(s) perq at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $13,818.27 | $2,573.70 – $12,263.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $5,347.65 | $4,125.33 – $15,279.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $2,350.55 – $12,961.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,398.52 – $10,408.59 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $9,350.33 | $2,398.52 – $37,869.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $11,254.17 | $71.00 – $32,603.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,437.59 | $71.00 – $32,603.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $9,350.33 | $2,398.52 – $37,869.50 |