Carbohydrate urine - sendout at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3.85
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.
$11.00
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.
$2.97 with OPTUM vs $19.94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2.97 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $3.96 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3.98 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4.51 | ↑ +17% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.62 | ↑ +20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.62 | ↑ +20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.62 | ↑ +20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.62 | ↑ +20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.62 | ↑ +20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.71 | ↑ +22% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.71 | ↑ +22% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.71 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.85 | ↑ +26% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4.95 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $5.17 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $5.31 | ↑ +38% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $5.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5.55 | ↑ +44% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.61 | ↑ +46% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $5.61 | ↑ +46% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $5.67 | ↑ +47% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.78 | ↑ +50% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↑ +53% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↑ +53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $6.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $6.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $6.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $6.19 | ↑ +61% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $6.19 | ↑ +61% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $6.33 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $6.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $6.60 | ↑ +71% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $6.60 | ↑ +71% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $7.11 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $7.15 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $7.15 | ↑ +86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $7.42 | ↑ +93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $7.65 | ↑ +99% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $7.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $7.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $7.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $7.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8.25 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $8.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $8.47 | ↑ +120% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.07 | ↑ +136% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $9.09 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $9.35 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10.19 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $10.19 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $10.19 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $10.19 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $11.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $11.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $11.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $11.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $13.22 | ↑ +243% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.41 | ↑ +274% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $14.41 | ↑ +274% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $14.59 | ↑ +279% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $17.31 | ↑ +350% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $17.88 | ↑ +364% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $19.94 | ↑ +418% |
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Carbohydrate urine - sendout at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $430.00 | $4.53 – $22.30 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3.85 | $2.97 – $17.88 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $4.62 – $22.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $4.62 – $22.30 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $96.66 | $4.62 – $120.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $78.68 | $8.06 – $118.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $76.88 | $4.62 – $96.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $96.66 | $4.62 – $120.83 |