Application of paste boot 29580 at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$223.30
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.
$638.00
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.
$36.99 with TCHP vs $4,300.00 with Humana — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $36.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $36.99 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $36.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $36.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $36.99 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $37.73 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $37.73 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $37.73 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.84 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $38.84 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $42.54 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $43.56 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $45.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $49.57 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $49.57 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $50.68 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $56.96 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $70.51 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $90.77 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $96.68 | ↓ -57% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $113.80 | ↓ -49% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $115.41 | ↓ -48% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $115.41 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $159.63 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $161.21 | ↓ -28% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $161.21 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $162.79 | ↓ -27% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $165.95 | ↓ -26% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↓ -24% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $172.26 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $189.66 | ↓ -15% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $213.37 | ↓ -4% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $221.27 | ↓ -1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $230.83 | ↑ +3% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $236.26 | ↑ +6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $243.40 | ↑ +9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $261.58 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $287.10 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $299.86 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $319.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $350.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $350.90 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $350.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $382.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $382.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +73% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $446.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $446.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $446.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $478.50 | ↑ +114% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $513.66 | ↑ +130% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $527.12 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $542.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $638.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +550% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +776% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +873% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +873% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +977% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,300.00 | ↑ +1826% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,300.00 | ↑ +1826% |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $223.30 | $172.26 – $638.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $36.43 – $304.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $32.46 – $304.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $33.12 – $304.83 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,062.85 | $52.78 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $331.74 | $33.12 – $414.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $444.71 | $35.44 – $667.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $421.59 | $33.12 – $526.99 |