Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$8,282.05
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.
$23,663.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $1,092.00 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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| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $294.84 | ↓ -96% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $395.09 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $447.72 | ↓ -95% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $491.40 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $513.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $546.00 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $600.60 | ↓ -93% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $600.60 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $600.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $655.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $709.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $709.80 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $709.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $764.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $764.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $764.40 | ↓ -91% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $819.00 | ↓ -90% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $902.22 | ↓ -89% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $928.20 | ↓ -89% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,092.00 | ↓ -87% |
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Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $11,827.05 | not published |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $3,214.23 | $54.91 – $387.90 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $3,548.48 | $100.00 – $624.65 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $3,214.23 | $86.20 – $366.35 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $8,282.05 | $100.00 – $1,092.00 |