Breast reconstruction at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
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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.
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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.
$2,112.30 with KelseyCare vs $7,270.00 with PHCS — 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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| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,112.30 | — |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $2,177.00 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $2,410.00 | — |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $2,486.00 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,899.00 | — |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $3,881.31 | — |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $7,270.00 | — |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $7,270.00 | — |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Commercial|Optum | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | not published by hospital | — |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Breast reconstruction at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $13,649.05 – $13,649.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $13,649.05 – $13,649.05 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | not published | $2,177.00 – $2,177.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $13,649.05 – $13,649.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,804.24 | $71.00 – $8,706.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,774.26 | $71.00 – $7,217.82 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $5,804.24 | $85.00 – $8,706.36 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $5,804.24 | $2,998.86 – $8,706.36 |