Cidofovir injection at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$654.57
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.
$1,870.19
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.
$381.77 with Renaissance vs $1,785.74 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 | $381.77 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $392.87 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $460.34 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $464.30 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $464.30 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $482.15 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $500.01 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $522.67 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $522.67 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $522.67 | ↓ -20% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $522.67 | ↓ -20% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $522.67 | ↓ -20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $522.67 | ↓ -20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $527.90 | ↓ -19% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $533.12 | ↓ -19% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $533.12 | ↓ -19% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $538.35 | ↓ -18% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $548.80 | ↓ -16% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $567.35 | ↓ -13% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $567.35 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $571.44 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $577.98 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $589.30 | ↓ -10% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $589.30 | ↓ -10% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $636.28 | ↓ -3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $642.87 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $642.87 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $642.87 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $646.09 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $678.59 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $678.59 | ↑ +4% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $705.60 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $726.32 | ↑ +11% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $732.16 | ↑ +12% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $742.32 | ↑ +13% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $784.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $784.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $784.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $784.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $784.00 | ↑ +20% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $803.59 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $816.55 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $839.30 | ↑ +28% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $875.02 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $875.02 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $875.02 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $892.87 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $946.26 | ↑ +45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $982.16 | ↑ +50% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $982.16 | ↑ +50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $982.16 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,022.98 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,071.45 | ↑ +64% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,071.45 | ↑ +64% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,160.74 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,160.74 | ↑ +77% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,160.74 | ↑ +77% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,250.02 | ↑ +91% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,250.02 | ↑ +91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,250.02 | ↑ +91% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,250.02 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,250.02 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,285.74 | ↑ +96% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,339.31 | ↑ +105% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,475.38 | ↑ +125% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,517.88 | ↑ +132% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,723.25 | ↑ +163% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,785.74 | ↑ +173% |
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Cidofovir injection at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $6,965.86 | $521.83 – $4,656.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $524.48 – $4,656.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $521.83 – $4,656.40 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $3,773.88 | $1,852.81 – $2,105.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $3,166.15 | $524.48 – $4,656.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $654.57 | $392.87 – $1,785.74 |