Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$49.33
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.
$140.94
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.
$0.23 with BCBS - TX vs $60.15 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 | $0.23 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $0.28 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $0.36 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.46 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $0.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $0.73 | ↓ -99% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $0.73 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $0.73 | ↓ -99% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $0.73 | ↓ -99% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $0.74 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $0.84 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $0.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $0.98 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1.00 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1.12 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1.35 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1.85 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1.85 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.85 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2.24 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2.28 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $13.24 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.64 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $16.25 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $19.25 | ↓ -61% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $19.85 | ↓ -60% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $21.77 | ↓ -56% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $24.67 | ↓ -50% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $27.07 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $28.28 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $29.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $29.48 | ↓ -40% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $30.08 | ↓ -39% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $33.09 | ↓ -33% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $33.09 | ↓ -33% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $33.09 | ↓ -33% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $36.09 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $36.09 | ↓ -27% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.10 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $39.10 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $39.10 | ↓ -21% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $42.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $42.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $42.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $42.11 | ↓ -15% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $42.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $43.31 | ↓ -12% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $45.12 | ↓ -9% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $49.70 | ↑ +1% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $51.13 | ↑ +4% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $60.15 | ↑ +22% |
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Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $49.33 | $0.27 – $60.15 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.49 – $5.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.49 – $5.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.49 – $5.45 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $173.84 | $0.96 – $4,826.69 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $129.87 | $0.94 – $2.93 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $53.07 | $0.54 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $49.33 | $0.27 – $60.15 |