Drain bladder by trocar/cath at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,470.95
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.
$9,917.00
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.
$73.71 with BCBS - TX vs $9,917.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $73.71 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $96.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $103.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $103.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $103.97 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $103.97 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $103.97 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $106.05 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.05 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $106.05 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $109.17 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $113.81 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $119.57 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $139.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $139.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -96% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $142.44 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -96% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $160.11 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $175.98 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $226.57 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $241.32 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $324.39 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $324.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $733.71 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -74% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -73% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,019.04 | ↓ -71% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,019.04 | ↓ -71% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,019.04 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,019.04 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,019.04 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,019.04 | ↓ -71% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,029.23 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,039.42 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,039.42 | ↓ -70% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,049.61 | ↓ -70% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,069.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -69% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,090.37 | ↓ -69% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,090.37 | ↓ -69% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,222.85 | ↓ -65% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,375.70 | ↓ -60% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,426.66 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,528.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,528.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,528.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,528.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,528.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,538.54 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,569.32 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,677.59 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -14% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $3,311.88 | ↓ -5% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,587.98 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4,065.97 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,462.65 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,660.99 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,958.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,454.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,454.35 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,454.35 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $5,950.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,950.20 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $6,446.05 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,446.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,446.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,446.05 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $6,446.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,941.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,941.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,941.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,941.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,437.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,536.92 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8,193.43 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8,429.45 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,917.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Drain bladder by trocar/cath at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,470.95 | $2,677.59 – $9,917.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $106.05 – $760.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $96.85 – $866.97 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $98.83 – $760.84 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,078.00 | $98.83 – $2,590.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $325.50 | $67.00 – $2,590.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $948.13 | $71.00 – $2,590.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,078.00 | $98.83 – $2,590.07 |