Clearance of airways at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$109.90
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.
$314.00
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.
$46.52 with BCBS - TX vs $5,160.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $46.52 | ↓ -58% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $84.78 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $113.61 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $128.74 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $141.30 | ↑ +29% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $146.68 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $147.58 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $154.53 | ↑ +41% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $157.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $169.24 | ↑ +54% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $172.70 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $172.70 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $172.70 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $188.40 | ↑ +71% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $203.72 | ↑ +85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +85% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $203.72 | ↑ +85% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $203.72 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +85% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $203.72 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $204.10 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $204.10 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $204.10 | ↑ +86% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $205.76 | ↑ +87% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $207.79 | ↑ +89% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $207.79 | ↑ +89% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $209.83 | ↑ +91% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $213.91 | ↑ +95% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $217.98 | ↑ +98% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $217.98 | ↑ +98% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $219.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $219.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $219.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $219.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $235.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $238.64 | ↑ +117% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $244.46 | ↑ +122% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $259.43 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $266.90 | ↑ +143% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $275.02 | ↑ +150% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $285.21 | ↑ +160% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $305.58 | ↑ +178% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $305.58 | ↑ +178% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $305.58 | ↑ +178% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $305.58 | ↑ +178% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $305.58 | ↑ +178% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $307.21 | ↑ +180% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $313.73 | ↑ +185% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $314.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $314.34 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $375.28 | ↑ +241% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $404.71 | ↑ +268% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $662.09 | ↑ +502% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +715% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +757% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $958.00 | ↑ +772% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +882% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +1221% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,494.00 | ↑ +1259% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,494.00 | ↑ +1259% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↑ +1424% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +1596% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +1679% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +1769% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1876% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1876% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +3983% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +3983% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +4595% |
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Clearance of airways at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $109.90 | $84.78 – $314.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $377.12 – $377.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $221.07 – $320.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $320.09 – $320.09 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $278.30 | $78.85 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $203.35 | $41.86 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $246.73 | $49.35 – $528.37 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $278.30 | $74.21 – $528.37 |