Culture anaerobic except blood at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$143.50
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.
$410.00
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.
$6.82 with Renaissance vs $410.00 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 | $6.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.95 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $7.95 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $7.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $7.95 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $8.11 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $8.11 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.11 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.35 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $9.47 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $9.47 | ↓ -93% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $9.47 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $9.56 | ↓ -93% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.66 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $9.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $9.75 | ↓ -93% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $9.94 | ↓ -93% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $10.13 | ↓ -93% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $10.13 | ↓ -93% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $10.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $10.65 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $10.89 | ↓ -92% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $11.36 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $11.36 | ↓ -92% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $12.24 | ↓ -91% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $12.78 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $13.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $13.26 | ↓ -91% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $14.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $14.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $14.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $14.58 | ↓ -90% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $15.63 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $17.54 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $17.54 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.54 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $17.54 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $22.30 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $24.60 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $24.80 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $24.80 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $27.37 | ↓ -81% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $30.78 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $33.65 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $35.22 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $36.36 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $37.79 | ↓ -74% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $110.70 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $148.34 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $168.10 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $184.50 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $192.70 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $205.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $225.50 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $225.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $225.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $246.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $266.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $266.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $266.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $287.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $287.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $287.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $307.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $338.75 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $348.50 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $410.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture anaerobic except blood at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,230.00 | $7.79 – $39.01 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $143.50 | $6.82 – $410.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $7.95 – $39.01 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $265.91 | $8.52 – $36.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $208.06 | $7.95 – $56.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $155.83 | $8.88 – $64.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $188.95 | $7.95 – $53.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $208.06 | $7.95 – $56.66 |