CT guidance for needle placement at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,570.80
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.
$4,488.00
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.
$93.84 with BCBS - TX vs $4,488.00 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|MyBlue Health Exchange | $93.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $100.88 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $209.58 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $247.11 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $273.70 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $359.60 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $590.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $761.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $800.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $800.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $900.00 | ↓ -43% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,154.70 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,211.76 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,264.00 | ↓ -20% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,623.76 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,703.00 | ↑ +8% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,840.08 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,891.00 | ↑ +20% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,891.00 | ↑ +20% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,019.60 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,109.36 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,244.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,468.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,468.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,468.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,692.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $2,692.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $2,737.68 | ↑ +74% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,917.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,917.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,917.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,141.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,141.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,141.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,141.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,366.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,707.99 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,814.80 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,488.00 | ↑ +186% |
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CT guidance for needle placement at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $6,133.00 | $137.63 – $1,179.62 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,570.80 | $100.00 – $4,488.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $10,564.05 | $137.63 – $1,179.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $137.63 – $1,179.62 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,506.04 | $156.40 – $2,133.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,650.56 | $262.75 – $2,475.84 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,981.41 | $262.75 – $2,476.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,506.04 | $179.08 – $2,133.56 |