Beta-2 microglobulin at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$96.25
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.
$275.00
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.
$11.65 with Renaissance vs $275.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $11.65 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.59 | ↓ -86% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $13.59 | ↓ -86% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $13.59 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $13.59 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $13.59 | ↓ -86% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $13.86 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $13.86 | ↓ -86% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.86 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.27 | ↓ -85% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.63 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $16.18 | ↓ -83% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $16.18 | ↓ -83% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $16.18 | ↓ -83% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $16.18 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $16.18 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $16.18 | ↓ -83% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $16.34 | ↓ -83% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $16.50 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $16.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $16.67 | ↓ -83% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $16.99 | ↓ -82% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $17.31 | ↓ -82% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $17.31 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $18.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $18.21 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $18.62 | ↓ -81% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $19.42 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $19.42 | ↓ -80% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $20.93 | ↓ -78% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $21.84 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $22.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $22.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $24.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $24.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $24.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $24.92 | ↓ -74% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $26.70 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $29.96 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $29.96 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.96 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $29.96 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $38.84 | ↓ -60% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $42.40 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $42.40 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $42.85 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $46.76 | ↓ -51% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $52.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $58.58 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $60.23 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $62.13 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $64.56 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $74.25 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $99.50 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $112.75 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $123.75 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $129.25 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $137.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $151.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $151.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $151.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $165.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $178.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $178.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $178.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $192.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $192.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $192.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $206.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $227.21 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $233.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $275.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Beta-2 microglobulin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $594.77 | $13.59 – $66.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $96.25 | $11.65 – $275.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $13.59 – $66.90 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $290.34 | $14.56 – $62.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $110.66 | $10.00 – $38.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $111.14 | $4.44 – $38.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $110.66 | $12.00 – $38.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $110.66 | $10.00 – $38.83 |