Chromosome karyotype study at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$94.15
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.
$269.00
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.
$24.10 with Renaissance vs $269.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $24.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $28.11 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $28.11 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $28.11 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $28.11 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $28.11 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $28.67 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $28.67 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $28.67 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.52 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $32.33 | ↓ -66% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $33.47 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $33.47 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $33.47 | ↓ -64% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $33.47 | ↓ -64% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $33.47 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $33.47 | ↓ -64% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $33.80 | ↓ -64% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $34.14 | ↓ -64% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $34.14 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $34.47 | ↓ -63% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $35.14 | ↓ -63% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $35.81 | ↓ -62% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $35.81 | ↓ -62% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $37.67 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $37.67 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $38.51 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $40.16 | ↓ -57% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $40.16 | ↓ -57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $43.29 | ↓ -54% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $45.18 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $46.52 | ↓ -51% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $46.86 | ↓ -50% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $50.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $50.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $50.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $50.20 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $50.21 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $50.21 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $50.21 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $50.21 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $51.54 | ↓ -45% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $55.23 | ↓ -41% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $72.63 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $80.13 | ↓ -15% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $87.70 | ↓ -7% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $87.70 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $88.42 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $93.43 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $96.73 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $97.33 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $108.78 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $110.29 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $120.90 | ↑ +28% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $121.05 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $126.43 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $128.52 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $133.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $134.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $147.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $147.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $147.95 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $161.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $164.09 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $174.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $174.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $174.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $188.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $188.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $188.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $188.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $201.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $222.25 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $228.65 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $269.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Chromosome karyotype study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,004.00 | $27.55 – $138.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $94.15 | $24.10 – $269.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $313.20 | $28.11 – $138.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $28.11 – $138.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $395.05 | $28.11 – $493.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $119.87 | $24.67 – $179.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $92.20 | $28.11 – $115.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $395.05 | $28.11 – $493.81 |