Drain cath image guided visceral pq at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,394.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$6,840.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$1,152.98 with BCBS - TX vs $20,636.00 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,152.98 | ↓ -52% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,168.46 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,262.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,622.86 | ↓ -32% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,622.86 | ↓ -32% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,622.86 | ↓ -32% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,622.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,622.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,622.86 | ↓ -32% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,639.09 | ↓ -32% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,655.32 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,655.32 | ↓ -31% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,671.55 | ↓ -30% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,704.00 | ↓ -29% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,736.46 | ↓ -27% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,736.46 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,846.80 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,947.43 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -17% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,190.86 | ↓ -8% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,272.00 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,292.24 | ↓ -4% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,352.97 | ↓ -2% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,434.29 | ↑ +2% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,434.29 | ↑ +2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,434.29 | ↑ +2% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,434.29 | ↑ +2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,434.29 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,474.72 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,499.20 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,800.10 | ↑ +17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,804.40 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,019.72 | ↑ +26% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,078.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,214.80 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,420.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,762.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,762.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,762.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,104.00 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,446.00 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $4,446.00 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,446.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,446.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,446.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,788.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,788.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,788.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,788.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,130.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,198.40 | ↑ +117% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,274.30 | ↑ +120% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,651.21 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,814.00 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,840.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +211% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +243% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +762% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Drain cath image guided visceral pq at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $7,955.14 | $2,813.83 – $2,813.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $7,547.00 | $1,667.42 – $2,388.32 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,394.00 | $1,846.80 – $6,840.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,388.32 – $2,388.32 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,839.24 | $804.45 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,620.54 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,550.61 | $71.00 – $4,016.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,839.24 | $757.13 – $4,016.35 |