Apheresis wbc at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,951.85
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.
$11,291.00
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.
$593.98 with Wellpoint vs $11,291.00 with MHealth Network — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $593.98 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $593.98 | ↓ -85% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $593.98 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $593.98 | ↓ -85% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $593.98 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $605.86 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $605.86 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $605.86 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $623.68 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $683.08 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $795.93 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $795.93 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $813.75 | ↓ -79% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $914.73 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,111.84 | ↓ -72% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,182.20 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,217.73 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,329.48 | ↓ -66% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -64% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,641.94 | ↓ -58% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,641.94 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -58% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,641.94 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,658.36 | ↓ -58% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,674.78 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,674.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,691.20 | ↓ -57% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,724.04 | ↓ -56% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,756.88 | ↓ -56% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,756.88 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,853.22 | ↓ -53% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,853.22 | ↓ -53% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,970.33 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,210.45 | ↓ -44% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,216.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,280.98 | ↓ -42% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,298.72 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,462.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,462.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,462.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,462.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,462.91 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,528.59 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.18 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $2,911.96 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3,048.57 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $4,085.09 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4,629.31 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $5,080.95 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $5,306.77 | ↑ +34% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,336.31 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $5,645.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $6,210.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $6,210.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $6,210.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $6,774.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $6,774.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $7,339.15 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,339.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $7,339.15 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $7,339.15 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $7,339.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,903.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $7,903.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $7,903.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $7,903.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,468.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $8,581.16 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +132% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9,328.63 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $9,597.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $11,291.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Apheresis wbc at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,951.85 | $3,048.57 – $11,291.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $605.86 – $2,713.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $553.33 – $2,303.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $564.62 – $2,303.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,347.60 | $564.62 – $4,184.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,342.71 | $604.14 – $5,014.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,961.82 | $564.62 – $3,800.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,347.60 | $564.62 – $4,184.50 |