#creutz-prot.,western blot at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$45.85
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.
$131.00
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.
$21.03 with Renaissance vs $131.00 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 | $21.03 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.54 | ↓ -46% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $24.54 | ↓ -46% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $24.54 | ↓ -46% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $24.54 | ↓ -46% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $24.54 | ↓ -46% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $25.03 | ↓ -45% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.03 | ↓ -45% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $25.03 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.77 | ↓ -44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $28.22 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $29.21 | ↓ -36% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $29.21 | ↓ -36% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $29.21 | ↓ -36% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -36% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $29.50 | ↓ -36% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $29.79 | ↓ -35% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $29.79 | ↓ -35% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $30.09 | ↓ -34% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $30.67 | ↓ -33% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $31.25 | ↓ -32% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $31.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $32.88 | ↓ -28% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $32.88 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $33.62 | ↓ -27% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $35.05 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $35.05 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $35.37 | ↓ -23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $37.79 | ↓ -18% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $39.43 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $40.60 | ↓ -11% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $40.89 | ↓ -11% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $43.81 | ↓ -4% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $43.81 | ↓ -4% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $43.81 | ↓ -4% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.81 | ↓ -4% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $43.81 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $43.82 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $43.82 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $43.82 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $43.82 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $44.98 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $47.40 | ↑ +3% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $48.20 | ↑ +5% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $53.71 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $58.95 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $61.57 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $65.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $67.01 | ↑ +46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $69.39 | ↑ +51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $72.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $72.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $72.05 | ↑ +57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $76.56 | ↑ +67% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $76.56 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $76.57 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $78.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $84.42 | ↑ +84% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $85.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $85.15 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $85.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $91.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $91.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $91.70 | ↑ +100% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $94.93 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $98.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $104.69 | ↑ +128% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $108.24 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $111.35 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $112.17 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $116.55 | ↑ +154% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $131.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $45.85 | $21.03 – $131.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $24.54 – $119.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $24.05 – $119.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $24.54 – $119.90 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $446.73 | $10.00 – $106.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $446.73 | $12.00 – $127.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $446.73 | $12.00 – $106.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $446.73 | $10.00 – $106.00 |