Artery x-rays lung at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,168.25
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.
$6,195.00
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.
$111.58 with BCBS - TX vs $10,245.95 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $111.58 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $119.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $134.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $134.99 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $134.99 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $137.69 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $137.69 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $137.69 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $141.74 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $155.24 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $180.89 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $184.94 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $207.88 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $249.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $254.83 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $280.65 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $293.82 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $325.43 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $344.35 | ↓ -84% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $421.17 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $421.17 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $582.00 | ↓ -73% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $681.45 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $681.45 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $782.00 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $869.00 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $869.00 | ↓ -60% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $913.15 | ↓ -58% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,672.65 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,740.96 | ↓ -20% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,241.36 | ↑ +3% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.87 | ↑ +5% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,539.95 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,787.75 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,911.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,097.50 | ↑ +43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,152.60 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↑ +45% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↑ +45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,184.13 | ↑ +47% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +48% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↑ +50% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,310.23 | ↑ +53% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +56% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,407.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,407.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,407.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,717.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $3,778.95 | ↑ +74% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,783.12 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,026.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,026.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,026.75 | ↑ +86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,256.01 | ↑ +96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,336.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,336.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,336.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,336.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,413.64 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,646.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +118% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +118% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $4,728.90 | ↑ +118% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +118% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +118% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,787.23 | ↑ +121% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,855.00 | ↑ +124% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,118.31 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,265.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,195.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,245.95 | ↑ +373% |
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Artery x-rays lung at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,168.25 | $131.10 – $6,195.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $4,164.93 | $134.99 – $481.51 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $134.99 – $481.51 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $132.29 – $481.51 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,704.33 | $134.99 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,168.15 | $312.41 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,079.54 | $134.99 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,704.33 | $134.99 – $7,896.23 |