Dilat xst trc ndurlgc px at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,507.80
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.
$4,308.00
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.
$896.00 with Aetna vs $20,636.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,163.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,202.33 | ↓ -20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,202.33 | ↓ -20% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,202.33 | ↓ -20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,202.33 | ↓ -20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,202.33 | ↓ -20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,226.38 | ↓ -19% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,226.38 | ↓ -19% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,226.38 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,262.45 | ↓ -16% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,382.68 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,488.10 | ↓ -1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,558.64 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,611.12 | ↑ +7% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,611.12 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,629.83 | ↑ +8% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,647.19 | ↑ +9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,766.28 | ↑ +17% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,851.59 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,938.60 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,024.76 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,154.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,369.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,369.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,369.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,487.28 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,584.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,800.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,800.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,800.20 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,958.49 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,015.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,015.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,015.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,015.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,231.00 | ↑ +114% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,454.56 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,454.56 | ↑ +129% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,454.56 | ↑ +129% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,454.56 | ↑ +129% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,454.56 | ↑ +129% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,454.56 | ↑ +129% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,489.11 | ↑ +131% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,523.65 | ↑ +134% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,523.65 | ↑ +134% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,558.20 | ↑ +136% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,559.27 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,613.96 | ↑ +140% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,627.29 | ↑ +141% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,636.00 | ↑ +141% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,661.80 | ↑ +143% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,696.38 | ↑ +145% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,696.38 | ↑ +145% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,751.27 | ↑ +149% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,751.27 | ↑ +149% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,897.41 | ↑ +158% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $4,145.47 | ↑ +175% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,308.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,663.66 | ↑ +209% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,836.38 | ↑ +221% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,896.00 | ↑ +225% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,141.58 | ↑ +241% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,181.84 | ↑ +244% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,181.84 | ↑ +244% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $5,181.84 | ↑ +244% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5,181.84 | ↑ +244% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $5,181.84 | ↑ +244% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $5,320.02 | ↑ +253% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +261% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +261% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +394% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +445% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $11,227.32 | ↑ +645% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +1269% |
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Dilat xst trc ndurlgc px at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $13,690.00 | $1,120.04 – $3,558.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,507.80 | $1,163.16 – $4,308.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,226.38 – $3,631.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,142.90 – $3,082.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $7,694.84 | $1,142.90 – $9,618.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $7,914.70 | $71.00 – $11,872.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $7,184.73 | $71.00 – $8,980.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $7,694.84 | $1,142.90 – $9,618.56 |