Critical care 30-74 minutes at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,335.20
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.
$6,672.00
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.
$587.18 with Wellpoint vs $5,857.00 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 |
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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $587.18 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $587.18 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $587.18 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $587.18 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $587.18 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $587.18 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $598.93 | ↓ -74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $598.93 | ↓ -74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $598.93 | ↓ -74% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $607.67 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $616.54 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $786.66 | ↓ -66% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $786.83 | ↓ -66% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $786.83 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $786.83 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $793.33 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $804.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -64% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -64% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $843.98 | ↓ -64% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $843.98 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $843.98 | ↓ -64% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $852.42 | ↓ -63% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $860.86 | ↓ -63% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $860.86 | ↓ -63% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $869.30 | ↓ -63% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $886.18 | ↓ -62% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $903.06 | ↓ -61% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $903.06 | ↓ -61% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,012.78 | ↓ -57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,139.37 | ↓ -51% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,181.57 | ↓ -49% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,240.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,245.65 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,265.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,265.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,265.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,265.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,265.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,299.73 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,346.65 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,433.32 | ↓ -39% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,441.26 | ↓ -38% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,832.01 | ↓ -22% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,832.01 | ↓ -22% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,931.29 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,066.65 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,116.00 | ↓ -9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,188.58 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,332.00 | ↓ -0% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,402.10 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,508.86 | ↑ +7% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,669.00 | ↑ +14% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,742.93 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,758.00 | ↑ +18% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,935.90 | ↑ +26% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,935.90 | ↑ +26% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,935.90 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,202.80 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $3,280.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,469.70 | ↑ +49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,469.70 | ↑ +49% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,469.70 | ↑ +49% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,712.00 | ↑ +59% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,736.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,736.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,736.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,736.60 | ↑ +60% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,003.50 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,056.88 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,124.00 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,124.00 | ↑ +77% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,410.26 | ↑ +89% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $4,537.30 | ↑ +94% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $5,338.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,857.00 | ↑ +151% |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,540.23 | $719.73 – $3,175.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,062.22 | $630.31 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,595.72 | $719.14 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,540.23 | $677.39 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,062.22 | $788.30 – $4,593.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,062.22 | $1,582.15 – $4,593.33 |