Artery x-rays lungs at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,331.70
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.
$6,662.00
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.
$147.69 with Wellpoint 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $147.69 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $148.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $148.35 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $150.64 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $150.64 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $151.32 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $155.07 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $170.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $198.79 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $203.24 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $227.42 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $228.46 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $250.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $307.31 | ↓ -87% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $462.85 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $462.85 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $582.00 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $732.82 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $732.82 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $782.00 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $869.00 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $869.00 | ↓ -63% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $981.98 | ↓ -58% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,798.74 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.87 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,410.32 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,731.42 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,997.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,131.14 | ↑ +34% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,152.60 | ↑ +35% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↑ +35% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↑ +35% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,184.13 | ↑ +37% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +38% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↑ +39% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,310.23 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3,325.54 | ↑ +43% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,331.00 | ↑ +43% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +45% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3,574.95 | ↑ +53% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,664.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,664.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,664.10 | ↑ +57% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,783.12 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,997.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $4,063.82 | ↑ +74% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,256.01 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,330.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,330.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,330.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,413.64 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,663.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,663.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,663.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,663.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +103% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +103% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +103% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $4,728.90 | ↑ +103% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +103% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,787.23 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,855.00 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $4,983.67 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,996.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,504.15 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,662.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,662.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $6,662.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $6,662.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $6,662.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,245.95 | ↑ +339% |
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Artery x-rays lungs at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $18,086.00 | $144.74 – $4,877.45 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,331.70 | $140.00 – $6,662.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $6,692.64 | $147.69 – $4,877.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $148.35 – $4,877.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,535.57 | $147.69 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,805.17 | $989.06 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,290.84 | $147.69 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,535.57 | $147.69 – $7,896.23 |