Controler lvad heartmate 3 includes ebb at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$20,818.35
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.
$59,481.00
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.
$8,395.80 with BCBS - TX vs $39,980.00 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $8,395.80 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $8,395.80 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $10,394.80 | ↓ -50% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $10,794.60 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $10,794.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $11,994.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11,994.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $11,994.00 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $12,393.80 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $13,193.40 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $13,193.40 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $13,593.20 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $13,593.20 | ↓ -35% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $14,464.77 | ↓ -31% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $16,391.80 | ↓ -21% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,391.80 | ↓ -21% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $17,991.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $17,991.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $17,991.00 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $18,790.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $19,990.00 | ↓ -4% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $21,989.00 | ↑ +6% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $21,989.00 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $21,989.00 | ↑ +6% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $21,989.00 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $23,988.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $23,988.00 | ↑ +15% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25,987.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $25,987.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $25,987.00 | ↑ +25% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $25,987.00 | ↑ +25% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $25,987.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $27,986.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $27,986.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $27,986.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $28,785.60 | ↑ +38% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $29,985.00 | ↑ +44% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $33,031.48 | ↑ +59% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $33,983.00 | ↑ +63% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $39,980.00 | ↑ +92% |
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Controler lvad heartmate 3 includes ebb at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $20,818.35 | $8,395.80 – $39,980.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $17,628.24 – $38,674.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $17,628.24 – $38,674.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $17,628.24 – $38,674.20 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $11,451.13 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $20,818.35 | $8,395.80 – $39,980.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $20,818.35 | $8,395.80 – $39,980.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $20,818.35 | $8,395.80 – $39,980.00 |