Caspofungin acetate at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$492.20
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.
$1,406.26
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.
$8.86 with United vs $1,355.49 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.86 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $10.34 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $12.14 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $12.14 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.14 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $12.98 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $16.32 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $18.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $19.66 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $19.66 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $21.26 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $22.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $298.21 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $352.43 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $352.43 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $365.99 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $433.76 | ↓ -12% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $447.32 | ↓ -9% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $490.42 | ↓ -0% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $555.76 | ↑ +13% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $609.98 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $637.09 | ↑ +29% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $664.20 | ↑ +35% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $664.20 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $664.20 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $677.75 | ↑ +38% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $745.52 | ↑ +51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $745.52 | ↑ +51% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $745.52 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $813.30 | ↑ +65% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $813.30 | ↑ +65% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $881.07 | ↑ +79% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $881.07 | ↑ +79% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $881.07 | ↑ +79% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $948.85 | ↑ +93% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $948.85 | ↑ +93% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $948.85 | ↑ +93% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $948.85 | ↑ +93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $948.85 | ↑ +93% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $975.96 | ↑ +98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,016.62 | ↑ +107% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,119.91 | ↑ +128% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,152.17 | ↑ +134% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,355.49 | ↑ +175% |
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Caspofungin acetate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $492.20 | $7.23 – $1,355.49 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3.34 – $123.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3.82 – $123.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3.34 – $123.11 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,646.77 | $7.93 – $45.88 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $492.20 | $7.23 – $1,355.49 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $492.20 | $7.23 – $1,355.49 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $492.20 | $7.23 – $1,355.49 |