Cold agglutinin screen (arc) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$55.65
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.
$159.00
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.
$5.81 with Renaissance vs $159.00 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 | $5.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $6.78 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $6.78 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.78 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $6.78 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.78 | ↓ -88% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $6.92 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6.92 | ↓ -88% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $6.92 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.12 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $8.07 | ↓ -85% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $8.07 | ↓ -85% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $8.07 | ↓ -85% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -85% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $8.15 | ↓ -85% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.23 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $8.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $8.31 | ↓ -85% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $8.47 | ↓ -85% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $8.63 | ↓ -84% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.63 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $9.09 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $9.09 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $9.29 | ↓ -83% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.68 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $9.68 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $10.44 | ↓ -81% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $10.89 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $11.22 | ↓ -80% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $11.30 | ↓ -80% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $12.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $12.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12.11 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.41 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $12.41 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $12.41 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $12.41 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $12.43 | ↓ -78% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.32 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $19.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $20.97 | ↓ -62% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $21.15 | ↓ -62% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $21.15 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $23.32 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $24.94 | ↓ -55% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $26.23 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $28.67 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $30.99 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $32.20 | ↓ -42% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $42.93 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $57.53 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $65.19 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $71.55 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $74.73 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $79.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $87.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $87.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $87.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $95.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $103.35 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $103.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $103.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $111.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $111.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $111.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $119.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $131.37 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $135.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $159.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Cold agglutinin screen (arc) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $55.65 | $5.81 – $159.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $6.64 – $33.47 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $130.83 | $7.26 – $31.07 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $128.26 | $6.78 – $160.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $91.12 | $11.82 – $136.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $82.03 | $6.78 – $102.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $128.26 | $6.78 – $160.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $91.12 | $7.25 – $136.68 |