Cefotaxime sodium injection at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$22.14
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.
$63.23
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.
$1.86 with BCBS - TX vs $60.85 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 | $1.86 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2.34 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2.94 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $3.83 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $4.14 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $10.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $13.39 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $14.50 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $14.50 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.83 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.83 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $16.43 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $19.48 | ↓ -12% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.09 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $21.91 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.91 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $21.91 | ↓ -1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $22.02 | ↓ -1% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $24.95 | ↑ +13% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $27.39 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $28.60 | ↑ +29% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $29.82 | ↑ +35% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.82 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $29.82 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $30.43 | ↑ +37% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $33.47 | ↑ +51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $33.47 | ↑ +51% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $33.47 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $36.51 | ↑ +65% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $36.51 | ↑ +65% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.56 | ↑ +79% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $39.56 | ↑ +79% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $39.56 | ↑ +79% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $42.60 | ↑ +92% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $42.60 | ↑ +92% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $42.60 | ↑ +92% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $42.60 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $42.60 | ↑ +92% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $43.82 | ↑ +98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $45.64 | ↑ +106% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $50.28 | ↑ +127% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $51.73 | ↑ +134% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $60.85 | ↑ +175% |
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Cefotaxime sodium injection at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $207.01 | $4.06 – $24.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $22.14 | $2.26 – $60.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $4.06 – $24.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $4.06 – $24.20 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $190.88 | $4.43 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $22.14 | $2.26 – $60.85 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $22.14 | $2.26 – $60.85 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $22.14 | $2.26 – $60.85 |