Bx vag mucos smpl (sep proc) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$637.35
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.
$1,821.00
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.
$45.82 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 | $45.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $49.51 | ↓ -92% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $49.51 | ↓ -92% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $49.51 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $49.51 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $49.51 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $50.50 | ↓ -92% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $50.50 | ↓ -92% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $50.50 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $51.99 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $53.78 | ↓ -92% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $56.94 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $62.49 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $66.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $66.34 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $67.83 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $76.25 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $83.17 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $107.07 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $114.04 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $154.47 | ↓ -76% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $154.47 | ↓ -76% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $491.67 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $627.95 | ↓ -1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $658.84 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $746.61 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $819.45 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $855.87 | ↑ +34% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $872.15 | ↑ +37% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $872.15 | ↑ +37% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $872.15 | ↑ +37% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $872.15 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $872.15 | ↑ +37% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $872.15 | ↑ +37% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $880.87 | ↑ +38% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $889.59 | ↑ +40% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $889.59 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $898.31 | ↑ +41% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $910.50 | ↑ +43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $915.76 | ↑ +44% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $933.20 | ↑ +46% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $933.20 | ↑ +46% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +48% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,001.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,001.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,001.55 | ↑ +57% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,046.58 | ↑ +64% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,060.19 | ↑ +66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,092.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,092.60 | ↑ +71% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,177.40 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,183.65 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,183.65 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,183.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,183.65 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,183.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,221.01 | ↑ +92% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,274.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,274.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,274.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,274.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,308.22 | ↑ +105% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,308.22 | ↑ +105% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,308.22 | ↑ +105% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,308.22 | ↑ +105% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,308.22 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,343.11 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,365.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,383.96 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +128% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,504.52 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,547.85 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,821.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +192% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +222% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +241% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +241% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +324% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +324% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,834.49 | ↑ +345% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +710% |
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Bx vag mucos smpl (sep proc) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $637.35 | $491.67 – $1,821.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $50.50 – $359.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $46.12 – $929.87 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $47.06 – $359.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,723.48 | $47.06 – $2,154.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,881.65 | $50.35 – $2,822.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,550.78 | $47.06 – $1,991.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,723.48 | $47.06 – $2,154.35 |