Cystourethroscop/calib/dilat stric 52281 at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$968.45
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.
$2,767.00
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.
$686.75 with Wellpoint vs $30,902.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $686.75 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $686.75 | ↓ -29% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $686.75 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $686.75 | ↓ -29% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $686.75 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $700.49 | ↓ -28% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $700.49 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $700.49 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $721.09 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $747.09 | ↓ -23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $789.76 | ↓ -18% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $920.25 | ↓ -5% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $920.25 | ↓ -5% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $940.85 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,001.11 | ↑ +3% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,057.60 | ↑ +9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,134.47 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,245.15 | ↑ +29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,285.00 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,300.49 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↑ +41% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,383.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↑ +48% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,477.32 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,488.10 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,521.85 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,521.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,521.85 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,629.83 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,660.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↑ +73% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,798.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,798.55 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,798.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,936.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,936.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,936.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,936.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,980.00 | ↑ +104% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,980.00 | ↑ +104% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↑ +105% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↑ +112% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,051.83 | ↑ +112% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,051.83 | ↑ +112% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $2,051.83 | ↑ +112% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,051.83 | ↑ +112% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↑ +112% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $2,072.35 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,075.25 | ↑ +114% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $2,092.87 | ↑ +116% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,092.87 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,102.92 | ↑ +117% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $2,113.38 | ↑ +118% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,142.66 | ↑ +121% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,142.66 | ↑ +121% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $2,154.42 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $2,172.54 | ↑ +124% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↑ +127% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↑ +127% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,286.10 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.95 | ↑ +143% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,462.20 | ↑ +154% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↑ +176% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,767.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,769.97 | ↑ +186% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,872.56 | ↑ +197% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,958.49 | ↑ +205% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +206% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,994.29 | ↑ +209% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.74 | ↑ +218% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,077.74 | ↑ +218% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.74 | ↑ +218% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $3,077.74 | ↑ +218% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,077.74 | ↑ +218% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $3,159.82 | ↑ +226% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,613.96 | ↑ +273% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,897.41 | ↑ +302% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +435% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +435% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $6,668.45 | ↑ +589% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $11,164.00 | ↑ +1053% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $12,302.00 | ↑ +1170% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $30,902.00 | ↑ +3091% |
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Cystourethroscop/calib/dilat stric 52281 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $968.45 | $747.09 – $2,767.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $700.49 – $3,631.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $639.74 – $3,082.50 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $652.80 – $3,082.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,398.11 | $652.80 – $5,045.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,631.51 | $71.00 – $6,947.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,294.68 | $71.00 – $5,368.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,398.11 | $652.80 – $5,045.72 |