Ascenda two piece catheter at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$63,744.10
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.
$182,126.00
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.
$487.31 with BCBS - TX vs $2,320.50 with MHealth Network — 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 | $487.31 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $487.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $580.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $603.33 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $603.33 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $626.54 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $626.54 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $672.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $672.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $719.36 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $765.77 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $765.77 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $788.97 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $788.97 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $839.56 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $858.59 | ↓ -99% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $951.41 | ↓ -99% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $951.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,044.23 | ↓ -98% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,044.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,044.23 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,090.64 | ↓ -98% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,160.25 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,276.28 | ↓ -98% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,276.28 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,276.28 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,276.28 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,392.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,392.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,392.30 | ↓ -98% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,508.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,508.33 | ↓ -98% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,508.33 | ↓ -98% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,508.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,508.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,624.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,624.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,670.76 | ↓ -97% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,740.38 | ↓ -97% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,917.20 | ↓ -97% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,972.43 | ↓ -97% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,320.50 | ↓ -96% |
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Ascenda two piece catheter at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $18,583.01 | $8,030.61 – $28,680.75 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $23,446.50 | $5,250.92 – $37,094.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $23,446.50 | $8,243.20 – $35,033.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $23,446.50 | $8,243.20 – $45,749.76 |