Drug test(s) presumptive any class instrument chemistry analyzers at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$206.15
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.
$589.00
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.
$44.74 with Renaissance vs $589.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $44.74 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $52.20 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $52.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $52.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $52.20 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $52.20 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.24 | ↓ -74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $53.24 | ↓ -74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $53.24 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $54.81 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $60.03 | ↓ -71% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $62.14 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $62.14 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $62.14 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $62.14 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $62.14 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $62.14 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $62.76 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $63.38 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $63.38 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $64.00 | ↓ -69% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $65.25 | ↓ -68% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $66.49 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $66.49 | ↓ -68% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $69.95 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $69.95 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $71.51 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $74.57 | ↓ -64% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $74.57 | ↓ -64% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $80.39 | ↓ -61% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $83.89 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $86.37 | ↓ -58% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $87.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $93.21 | ↓ -55% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $93.21 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $93.21 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $93.21 | ↓ -55% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $93.21 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $95.70 | ↓ -54% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $102.53 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $107.75 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $107.75 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $107.75 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $107.75 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $148.71 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $159.03 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $162.86 | ↓ -21% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $162.86 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $164.10 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $179.58 | ↓ -13% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $201.96 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $213.11 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $224.34 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $238.62 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $241.49 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $247.94 | ↑ +20% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $265.05 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $276.83 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $294.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $323.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $323.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $323.95 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $353.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $382.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $382.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $382.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $412.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $412.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $412.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $412.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $441.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $486.64 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $500.65 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $589.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Drug test(s) presumptive any class instrument chemistry analyzers at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $206.15 | $44.74 – $589.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $52.20 – $255.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $51.16 – $255.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $52.20 – $255.08 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,170.94 | $55.93 – $239.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,041.00 | $3.00 – $149.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,041.00 | $1.03 – $149.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,041.00 | $3.87 – $149.14 |