Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,324.40
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.
$3,784.00
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.
$174.32 with Renaissance vs $3,784.00 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 | $174.32 | ↓ -87% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $191.46 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $191.46 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $191.46 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $193.92 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $195.29 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $195.29 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $195.29 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $197.21 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $201.03 | ↓ -85% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $220.18 | ↓ -83% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $242.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↓ -82% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↓ -82% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -82% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $244.53 | ↓ -82% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -81% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $249.37 | ↓ -81% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $254.22 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $256.56 | ↓ -81% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -80% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $262.30 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $275.69 | ↓ -79% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $290.53 | ↓ -78% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $294.85 | ↓ -78% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $326.85 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $331.97 | ↓ -75% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $338.95 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $353.33 | ↓ -73% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $363.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $372.85 | ↓ -72% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $384.80 | ↓ -71% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $416.24 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $416.24 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $486.71 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $509.45 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $536.04 | ↓ -60% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $557.77 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $597.36 | ↓ -55% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $597.36 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $657.71 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $760.00 | ↓ -43% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $786.86 | ↓ -41% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,021.68 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,024.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,135.00 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,135.00 | ↓ -14% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,369.06 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,551.44 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,702.80 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,778.48 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,892.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,081.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,081.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,081.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,270.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,459.60 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,459.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,459.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,648.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,648.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,648.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,838.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,126.35 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,216.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,784.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,324.40 | $191.46 – $3,784.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $195.46 – $557.32 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $187.63 – $557.32 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $191.46 – $557.32 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,602.58 | $632.71 – $632.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,375.99 | $187.79 – $1,719.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,224.72 | $252.09 – $1,837.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,224.72 | $187.79 – $1,530.90 |