Dextrose 5 % and 0.9 % sodium chloride intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$9.19
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.
$26.24
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.
$0.59 with Aetna vs $2.64 with BCBS - TX — 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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| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $0.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $0.69 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $0.69 | ↓ -92% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $0.72 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $0.85 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.96 | ↓ -90% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $0.96 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.96 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.96 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1.01 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.01 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1.09 | ↓ -88% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1.19 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1.30 | ↓ -86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.30 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1.30 | ↓ -86% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1.32 | ↓ -86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1.46 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1.46 | ↓ -84% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1.46 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1.51 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1.59 | ↓ -83% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1.59 | ↓ -83% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1.72 | ↓ -81% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1.72 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1.72 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1.85 | ↓ -80% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1.85 | ↓ -80% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1.85 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1.85 | ↓ -80% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1.85 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1.90 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1.91 | ↓ -79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1.98 | ↓ -78% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2.19 | ↓ -76% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2.25 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2.39 | ↓ -74% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2.64 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $2.64 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2.64 | ↓ -71% |
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Dextrose 5 % and 0.9 % sodium chloride intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $9.19 | $0.59 – $2.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1.25 – $10.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1.31 – $10.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1.25 – $10.52 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $137.39 | $6.47 – $6.47 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $49.79 | $4.74 – $6.71 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $9.93 | $1.69 – $21.27 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $9.19 | $0.59 – $2.64 |