Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$53,846.10
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.
$153,846.00
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.
$224.91 with BCBS - TX vs $1,071.00 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 | $224.91 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $224.91 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $267.75 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $278.46 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $278.46 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $289.17 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $289.17 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $310.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $310.59 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $321.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $321.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $321.30 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $332.01 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $353.43 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $353.43 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $364.14 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $364.14 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $387.49 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $396.27 | ↓ -99% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $439.11 | ↓ -99% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $439.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $481.95 | ↓ -99% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $481.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $481.95 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $503.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $535.50 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $589.05 | ↓ -99% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $589.05 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $589.05 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $589.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $642.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $642.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $642.60 | ↓ -99% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $696.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $749.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $749.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $771.12 | ↓ -99% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $803.25 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $884.87 | ↓ -98% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $910.35 | ↓ -98% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,071.00 | ↓ -98% |
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Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,946.82 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $543.90 | $100.00 – $648.12 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $3,011.58 | $189.58 – $1,339.20 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $3,011.58 | $337.20 – $1,264.80 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $743.40 | $134.03 – $725.96 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $3,011.58 | $337.20 – $1,651.68 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $2,946.82 | $294.92 – $294.92 |
| St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital | Caldwell | $3,011.58 | $327.36 – $1,339.20 |