Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$71.44
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.
$204.09
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.
$2.57 with BCBS - TX vs $25.00 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 | $2.57 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3.22 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $4.05 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $5.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $5.50 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $5.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6.50 | ↓ -91% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $6.75 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $7.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $8.00 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.25 | ↓ -88% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8.25 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $9.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $9.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9.00 | ↓ -87% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $9.05 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9.50 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.50 | ↓ -87% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $10.25 | ↓ -86% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $11.25 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $11.75 | ↓ -84% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $12.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $12.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $12.50 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $13.75 | ↓ -81% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.75 | ↓ -81% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $13.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $15.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $15.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $16.25 | ↓ -77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -77% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $16.25 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $17.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $17.50 | ↓ -76% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $17.50 | ↓ -76% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $17.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $17.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $18.00 | ↓ -75% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $18.75 | ↓ -74% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $20.66 | ↓ -71% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $21.25 | ↓ -70% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $25.00 | ↓ -65% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $71.44 | $3.11 – $25.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $5.59 – $53.76 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5.59 – $53.76 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $5.59 – $53.76 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $554.84 | $10.97 – $10.97 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $26.08 | $5.59 – $53.76 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $56.70 | $10.66 – $37.43 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $59.91 | $3.11 – $128.37 |