Aquatic exercise - group charge at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$87.15
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.
$249.00
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.
$22.11 with BCBS - TX vs $338.00 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $22.11 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $22.49 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $31.81 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $37.85 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $40.29 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $58.09 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $67.23 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $90.09 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $102.09 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $112.05 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $117.03 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $124.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $136.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $136.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $136.95 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $149.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $161.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $161.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $161.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $174.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $174.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $174.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $174.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $186.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $205.73 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $211.65 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $226.00 | ↑ +159% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $249.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $306.00 | ↑ +251% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $338.00 | ↑ +288% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $338.00 | ↑ +288% |
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Aquatic exercise - group charge at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $615.34 | $15.68 – $52.39 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $87.15 | $27.36 – $249.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $15.68 – $34.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $15.68 – $34.40 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $191.40 | $72.15 – $72.15 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $117.76 | $33.36 – $166.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $117.76 | $24.24 – $176.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $106.47 | $21.29 – $149.00 |