Cath left heart/lv gram at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$4,753.35
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.
$13,581.00
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.
$1,493.91 with TCHP vs $28,954.00 with Cigna — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,493.91 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,493.91 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,523.79 | ↓ -68% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $2,001.84 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $2,046.66 | ↓ -57% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,319.57 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $2,670.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,212.00 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -32% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,221.62 | ↓ -32% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,221.62 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,221.62 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -32% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,224.00 | ↓ -32% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,253.84 | ↓ -32% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,286.05 | ↓ -31% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,286.05 | ↓ -31% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,318.27 | ↓ -30% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,382.70 | ↓ -29% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,447.13 | ↓ -27% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,447.13 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3,666.87 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,865.94 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,343.00 | ↓ -9% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,349.19 | ↓ -9% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,510.27 | ↓ -5% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,661.00 | ↓ -2% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,661.00 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,823.00 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,823.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $4,832.43 | ↑ +2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,832.43 | ↑ +2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,832.43 | ↑ +2% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,832.43 | ↑ +2% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,832.43 | ↑ +2% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,849.27 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $4,873.41 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $4,913.61 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,961.29 | ↑ +4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $5,568.21 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $5,842.40 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $6,111.45 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $6,383.07 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,466.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $6,790.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $7,469.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $7,469.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $7,469.55 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $8,148.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $8,179.36 | ↑ +72% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $8,500.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $8,500.00 | ↑ +79% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,827.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $8,827.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $8,827.65 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $9,162.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $9,506.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $9,506.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9,506.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $9,506.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10,185.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $10,321.56 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $10,461.00 | ↑ +120% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,470.26 | ↑ +120% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $11,220.63 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $11,285.80 | ↑ +137% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $11,527.00 | ↑ +143% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $11,543.85 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $12,596.78 | ↑ +165% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $13,581.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $28,954.00 | ↑ +509% |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $4,753.35 | $1,086.48 – $13,581.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $6,298.39 – $6,298.39 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5,357.91 – $5,357.91 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $6,298.39 – $6,298.39 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $11,201.25 | $3,093.86 – $14,001.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $12,231.53 | $2,517.66 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,848.25 | $1,969.65 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $11,201.25 | $2,987.00 – $17,181.00 |