Bundled special stain group 1 microorganisms at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$178.85
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.
$511.00
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.
$38.53 with Renaissance vs $511.00 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 | $38.53 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $42.08 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $53.52 | ↓ -70% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $53.52 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $53.52 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $53.52 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $53.52 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $53.52 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $54.06 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $54.59 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $54.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $55.13 | ↓ -69% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $56.20 | ↓ -69% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $57.27 | ↓ -68% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $57.27 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $59.36 | ↓ -67% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $64.22 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $67.05 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $67.05 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $67.05 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $67.05 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $68.76 | ↓ -62% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $72.25 | ↓ -60% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $74.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $80.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $80.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $80.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $80.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $80.28 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $82.42 | ↓ -54% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $83.09 | ↓ -54% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $137.97 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $142.97 | ↓ -20% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $173.94 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $184.88 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $189.96 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $197.39 | ↑ +10% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $209.51 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $210.56 | ↑ +18% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $229.95 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $232.35 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $240.17 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $255.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $281.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $281.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $281.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $306.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $311.71 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $317.66 | ↑ +78% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $332.15 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $332.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $332.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $357.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $357.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $357.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $357.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $383.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $422.19 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $434.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $511.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Bundled special stain group 1 microorganisms at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $178.85 | $67.05 – $511.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $49.76 – $722.88 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $49.76 – $722.88 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $49.76 – $722.88 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $211.52 | $190.46 – $190.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $166.15 | $35.00 – $207.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $176.36 | $36.00 – $264.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $171.22 | $34.24 – $214.03 |