Cyanocobalamin (vit b-12) 1,000 mcg/ml injection solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$19.46
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.
$55.58
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.
$2.22 with United vs $55.01 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2.22 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3.05 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3.05 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.05 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3.11 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $3.39 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3.58 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3.90 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $4.90 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $6.38 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $6.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $12.11 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14.31 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.31 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $14.86 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $17.61 | ↓ -10% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.16 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $19.91 | ↑ +2% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $22.56 | ↑ +16% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $24.76 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $25.86 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $26.96 | ↑ +39% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.96 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $26.96 | ↑ +39% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $27.51 | ↑ +41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.26 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $30.26 | ↑ +55% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.26 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $33.01 | ↑ +70% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $33.01 | ↑ +70% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $35.76 | ↑ +84% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $35.76 | ↑ +84% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $35.76 | ↑ +84% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $38.51 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $38.51 | ↑ +98% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $38.51 | ↑ +98% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $38.51 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $38.51 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $39.61 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $41.26 | ↑ +112% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $45.45 | ↑ +134% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $46.76 | ↑ +140% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $55.01 | ↑ +183% |
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Cyanocobalamin (vit b-12) 1,000 mcg/ml injection solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $51.16 | $0.67 – $19.09 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $86.00 | $0.64 – $19.09 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $19.46 | $1.81 – $55.01 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $47.07 | $0.67 – $19.09 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $56.74 | $13.28 – $13.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $125.87 | $0.67 – $19.09 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $56.70 | $3.31 – $13.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $74.82 | $0.64 – $19.09 |