Arthrocentesis/aspiration/injection intermediate joint/bursa without ultrasound guidance right at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,396.50
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.
$3,990.00
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.
$23.90 with BCBS - TX vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $23.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $24.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.76 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.76 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $24.76 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $24.76 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.26 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $25.26 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $25.26 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.00 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $28.06 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $28.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $33.18 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $33.18 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $33.92 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $38.13 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $43.39 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $46.71 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $55.86 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $59.49 | ↓ -96% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $77.25 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $77.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $212.88 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $295.67 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $295.67 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $295.67 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -79% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $298.63 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $301.58 | ↓ -78% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $301.58 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $304.54 | ↓ -78% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $310.45 | ↓ -78% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $316.37 | ↓ -77% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $316.37 | ↓ -77% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $354.80 | ↓ -75% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $399.15 | ↓ -71% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $413.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $436.92 | ↓ -69% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $443.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $443.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $443.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $443.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $443.50 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $455.33 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -36% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -33% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $960.93 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,077.30 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,443.59 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,635.90 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,795.50 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,875.30 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,995.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +56% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,194.50 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,194.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,194.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,394.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $2,394.00 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $2,593.50 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $2,593.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,593.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,593.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,593.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,793.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,793.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,793.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,793.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,992.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,032.40 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,296.54 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,391.50 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,990.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,300.00 | ↑ +208% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,300.00 | ↑ +208% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +269% |
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