Dacarbazine 100 mg intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$160.26
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.
$457.88
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.
$5.10 with BCBS - TX vs $414.21 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 | $5.10 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $6.41 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $7.30 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $8.05 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $10.01 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $10.01 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10.01 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $10.49 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $11.34 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $13.28 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $13.28 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $91.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $107.70 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $107.70 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $111.84 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $132.55 | ↓ -17% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $136.69 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $149.87 | ↓ -6% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $169.83 | ↑ +6% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $186.40 | ↑ +16% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $194.68 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $202.97 | ↑ +27% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $202.97 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $202.97 | ↑ +27% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $207.11 | ↑ +29% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $227.82 | ↑ +42% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $227.82 | ↑ +42% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $227.82 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $248.53 | ↑ +55% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $248.53 | ↑ +55% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $269.24 | ↑ +68% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $269.24 | ↑ +68% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $269.24 | ↑ +68% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $289.95 | ↑ +81% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $289.95 | ↑ +81% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $289.95 | ↑ +81% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $289.95 | ↑ +81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $289.95 | ↑ +81% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $298.24 | ↑ +86% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $310.66 | ↑ +94% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $342.23 | ↑ +114% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $352.08 | ↑ +120% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $414.21 | ↑ +158% |
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Dacarbazine 100 mg intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $154.67 | $4.50 – $41.98 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $160.26 | $5.95 – $414.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $4.12 – $41.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $4.50 – $41.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $22.90 | $4.50 – $41.98 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $158.03 | $13.36 – $22.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $281.88 | $4.12 – $41.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $366.33 | $4.12 – $41.98 |