Ablation cryo pq liver tumor(s) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,485.30
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.
$9,958.00
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.
$2,404.80 with KelseyCare vs $33,891.29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,688.66 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,960.14 | ↓ -15% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,960.14 | ↓ -15% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,960.14 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,960.14 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,960.14 | ↓ -15% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3,019.34 | ↓ -13% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,019.34 | ↓ -13% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3,019.34 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $3,108.15 | ↓ -11% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3,404.16 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $3,586.00 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,602.81 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $3,966.59 | ↑ +14% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3,966.59 | ↑ +14% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $4,055.39 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $4,060.32 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4,082.78 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,314.00 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $4,447.01 | ↑ +28% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,481.10 | ↑ +29% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $4,558.62 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,680.26 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4,848.00 | ↑ +39% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,979.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,476.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,476.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,476.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,974.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,472.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,472.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,472.70 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $6,527.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,970.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,970.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,970.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,970.60 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,252.00 | ↑ +108% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7,252.00 | ↑ +108% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,468.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $7,508.22 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,568.08 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $8,072.30 | ↑ +132% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +136% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8,227.30 | ↑ +136% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,461.71 | ↑ +143% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8,464.30 | ↑ +143% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9,235.64 | ↑ +165% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9,235.64 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $9,860.77 | ↑ +183% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,958.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $10,428.09 | ↑ +199% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $10,428.09 | ↑ +199% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $10,428.09 | ↑ +199% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $10,428.09 | ↑ +199% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $10,428.09 | ↑ +199% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $10,428.09 | ↑ +199% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $10,532.37 | ↑ +202% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $10,634.16 | ↑ +205% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $10,636.65 | ↑ +205% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $10,636.65 | ↑ +205% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $10,740.93 | ↑ +208% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $10,949.49 | ↑ +214% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $11,158.06 | ↑ +220% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $11,158.06 | ↑ +220% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $12,513.71 | ↑ +259% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $14,077.92 | ↑ +304% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $14,599.33 | ↑ +319% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $15,642.14 | ↑ +349% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,642.14 | ↑ +349% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $15,642.14 | ↑ +349% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $15,642.14 | ↑ +349% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $15,642.14 | ↑ +349% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $16,059.26 | ↑ +361% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +492% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $33,891.29 | ↑ +872% |
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Ablation cryo pq liver tumor(s) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,485.30 | $2,688.66 – $9,958.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3,019.34 – $9,909.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $2,757.54 – $10,731.66 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,813.82 – $8,410.66 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $8,581.80 | $2,813.82 – $25,500.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $7,512.59 | $71.00 – $25,500.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $7,014.56 | $71.00 – $25,500.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $8,581.80 | $2,813.82 – $25,500.18 |