Cath malecot 28fr 4-wing ltx at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,744.00
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.
$7,840.00
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.
$8.64 with OPTUM vs $1,884.24 with Healthsmart — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $8.64 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $11.58 | ↓ -100% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $13.12 | ↓ -100% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $14.40 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $15.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $17.60 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $17.60 | ↓ -99% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $17.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $20.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $20.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $22.40 | ↓ -99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $22.40 | ↓ -99% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $22.40 | ↓ -99% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.00 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $26.44 | ↓ -99% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $27.20 | ↓ -99% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $549.57 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $549.57 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $654.25 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $680.42 | ↓ -75% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $680.42 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $706.59 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $758.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $758.93 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $811.27 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $863.61 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $863.61 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $889.78 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $889.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $968.29 | ↓ -65% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,072.97 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,177.65 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,177.65 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,439.35 | ↓ -48% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,570.20 | ↓ -43% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,701.05 | ↓ -38% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,701.05 | ↓ -38% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,884.24 | ↓ -31% |
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Cath malecot 28fr 4-wing ltx at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,744.00 | $8.64 – $1,701.05 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $6,763.68 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $2,507.46 | $25.83 – $427.25 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $3,607.10 | $2.55 – $78.80 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $686.39 | $7.75 – $788.93 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,744.00 | $8.64 – $1,701.05 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $2,744.00 | $8.64 – $1,701.05 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $3,607.10 | $9.80 – $275.80 |