Contrast x-ray of brain at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$727.65
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.
$2,079.00
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.
$166.40 with Wellpoint vs $2,571.86 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $166.40 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $169.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $169.08 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $169.73 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $169.73 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $172.46 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $174.72 | ↓ -76% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $194.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $226.57 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $228.69 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $228.69 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $231.64 | ↓ -68% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $260.38 | ↓ -64% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $306.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $361.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $398.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $488.39 | ↓ -33% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $527.53 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $527.53 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $561.33 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $569.76 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $582.00 | ↓ -20% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $752.19 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $782.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $791.34 | ↑ +9% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $791.34 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $791.34 | ↑ +9% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↑ +9% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $791.34 | ↑ +9% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $799.25 | ↑ +10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $807.17 | ↑ +11% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↑ +11% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $816.98 | ↑ +12% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $830.91 | ↑ +14% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↑ +16% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $852.39 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $869.00 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $869.00 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $878.26 | ↑ +21% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $935.55 | ↑ +29% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $949.61 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $977.13 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,039.50 | ↑ +43% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,068.31 | ↑ +47% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,107.88 | ↑ +52% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,143.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,143.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,143.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↑ +63% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,187.01 | ↑ +63% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,187.01 | ↑ +63% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,187.01 | ↑ +63% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↑ +63% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,211.91 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,218.66 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,247.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,268.19 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,351.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,351.35 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,351.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,455.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,455.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,455.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,455.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,559.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,717.67 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,767.15 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,824.60 | ↑ +151% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,079.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $2,079.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,079.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,571.86 | ↑ +253% |
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Contrast x-ray of brain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $727.65 | $140.00 – $2,079.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $169.08 – $1,198.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $163.07 – $1,198.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $166.40 – $1,198.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,336.32 | $166.40 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,718.20 | $353.66 – $2,577.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,050.99 | $166.40 – $2,563.73 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,336.32 | $166.40 – $1,983.49 |