Car seat/bed test 60 minutes at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$141.75
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.
$405.00
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.
$28.30 with Renaissance vs $745.00 with United — 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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| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $28.30 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $39.31 | ↓ -72% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $39.31 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $39.31 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $39.31 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $39.45 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $39.70 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $40.10 | ↓ -72% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $40.10 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $40.12 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $40.49 | ↓ -71% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $41.28 | ↓ -71% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $42.06 | ↓ -70% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $42.06 | ↓ -70% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $47.17 | ↓ -67% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $53.07 | ↓ -63% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $55.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $56.61 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $58.97 | ↓ -58% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $58.97 | ↓ -58% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $58.97 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $58.97 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $58.97 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $60.54 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $67.53 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $71.87 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $81.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $103.63 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $109.35 | ↓ -23% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $127.76 | ↓ -10% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $146.53 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $166.05 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $182.25 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $190.35 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $202.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $222.75 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $222.75 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $222.75 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $243.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $263.25 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $263.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $263.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $283.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $283.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $283.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $303.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $334.62 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $344.25 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $405.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $499.00 | ↑ +252% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $674.00 | ↑ +375% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $745.00 | ↑ +426% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $745.00 | ↑ +426% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $141.75 | $48.81 – $405.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $386.13 | $78.23 – $495.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $78.23 – $495.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $78.23 – $495.67 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $237.16 | $35.64 – $296.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $185.68 | $38.22 – $278.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $180.79 | $35.64 – $225.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $237.16 | $35.64 – $296.44 |