Csf leakage imaging at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$564.55
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.
$1,613.00
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.
$177.43 with TCHP vs $4,249.67 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 |
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| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $177.43 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $177.43 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $237.76 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $252.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $252.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $252.60 | ↓ -55% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $257.65 | ↓ -54% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $257.65 | ↓ -54% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $257.65 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $265.23 | ↓ -53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $290.49 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $310.08 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $333.34 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $338.48 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $346.06 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $389.00 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $435.51 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $516.16 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $564.55 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $583.59 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $661.33 | ↑ +17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $661.33 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $692.51 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $725.85 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $758.11 | ↑ +34% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $788.11 | ↑ +40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $788.11 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $806.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $816.54 | ↑ +45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $887.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $887.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $887.15 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $904.40 | ↑ +60% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $941.46 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $967.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $983.93 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,048.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,048.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,048.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,129.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,129.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,129.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,129.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,209.75 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,307.59 | ↑ +132% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,307.59 | ↑ +132% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,307.59 | ↑ +132% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,307.59 | ↑ +132% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,307.59 | ↑ +132% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,307.59 | ↑ +132% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,320.67 | ↑ +134% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,332.67 | ↑ +136% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,333.74 | ↑ +136% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,333.74 | ↑ +136% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,346.82 | ↑ +139% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,371.05 | ↑ +143% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,372.97 | ↑ +143% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,399.12 | ↑ +148% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,399.12 | ↑ +148% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,399.21 | ↑ +148% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,569.11 | ↑ +178% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,613.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,765.25 | ↑ +213% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,830.63 | ↑ +224% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,961.38 | ↑ +247% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,961.38 | ↑ +247% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,961.38 | ↑ +247% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,961.38 | ↑ +247% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,961.38 | ↑ +247% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,013.69 | ↑ +257% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,184.00 | ↑ +287% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,185.34 | ↑ +287% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,940.00 | ↑ +421% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,268.00 | ↑ +479% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,268.00 | ↑ +479% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $4,249.67 | ↑ +653% |
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Csf leakage imaging at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $564.55 | $129.04 – $1,613.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $272.99 – $1,418.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $247.55 – $1,418.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $252.60 – $1,418.83 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,433.25 | $242.91 – $3,517.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,391.99 | $286.52 – $3,517.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,405.38 | $242.91 – $3,517.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,433.25 | $242.91 – $3,517.62 |