Card MRI veloc flow mapping at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,075.55
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.
$3,073.00
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.
$50.17 with BCBS - TX vs $3,073.00 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $50.17 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $53.93 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $112.05 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $132.12 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $146.34 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $181.68 | ↓ -83% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $829.71 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,015.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,023.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,050.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,050.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,100.00 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,111.82 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,119.00 | ↑ +4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,259.93 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,320.00 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,382.85 | ↑ +29% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,398.60 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,444.31 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,501.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,536.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,690.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,690.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,690.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,843.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,874.53 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,997.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,997.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,997.45 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,021.00 | ↑ +88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,151.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,151.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,151.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,151.10 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,247.00 | ↑ +109% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,247.00 | ↑ +109% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,304.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,538.92 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,612.05 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,812.00 | ↑ +161% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,073.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Card MRI veloc flow mapping at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,075.55 | $58.95 – $3,073.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $73.59 – $745.57 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $73.59 – $745.57 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $73.59 – $745.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $715.68 | $83.62 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $514.91 | $105.99 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $490.39 | $98.08 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $715.68 | $95.74 – $2,149.00 |