CT guidance for percutaneous drain w/catheter placement supervision & interpretation at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,502.90
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.
$4,294.00
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.
$76.55 with BCBS - TX vs $3,350.00 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 | $76.55 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $82.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $170.96 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $201.58 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $212.45 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $223.27 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $414.00 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $559.00 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $618.00 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $618.00 | ↓ -59% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $904.50 | ↓ -40% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,212.03 | ↓ -19% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,373.50 | ↓ -9% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,507.50 | ↑ +0% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,574.50 | ↑ +5% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↑ +11% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,842.50 | ↑ +23% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,842.50 | ↑ +23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,842.50 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,010.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $2,043.50 | ↑ +36% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,177.50 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,177.50 | ↑ +45% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,177.50 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,345.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,345.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,345.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,345.00 | ↑ +56% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,512.50 | ↑ +67% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,767.77 | ↑ +84% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,847.50 | ↑ +89% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,350.00 | ↑ +123% |
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CT guidance for percutaneous drain w/catheter placement supervision & interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,502.90 | $89.94 – $3,350.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $112.27 – $1,105.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $112.27 – $1,105.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $112.27 – $1,105.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,085.05 | $127.58 – $1,537.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,007.29 | $207.33 – $1,510.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $979.93 | $195.99 – $1,224.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,085.05 | $146.08 – $1,537.16 |