Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,562.70
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.
$7,322.00
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.
$553.05 with TCHP vs $7,322.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $553.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $553.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $553.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $553.05 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $553.05 | ↓ -78% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $564.11 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $564.11 | ↓ -78% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $564.11 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $580.70 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $636.01 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $741.09 | ↓ -71% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $741.09 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $757.68 | ↓ -70% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $851.70 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,179.08 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,201.71 | ↓ -53% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,243.63 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,285.00 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,316.16 | ↓ -49% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↓ -35% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,725.52 | ↓ -33% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,725.52 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,727.26 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,727.26 | ↓ -33% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,727.26 | ↓ -33% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,727.26 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↓ -33% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↓ -33% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,744.53 | ↓ -32% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,761.81 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,761.81 | ↓ -31% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,779.08 | ↓ -31% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,813.62 | ↓ -29% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,848.17 | ↓ -28% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,848.17 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,976.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,980.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,980.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,072.71 | ↓ -19% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,331.80 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,389.12 | ↓ -7% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,418.16 | ↓ -6% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,501.99 | ↓ -2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,590.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,590.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,590.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,590.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,590.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,609.00 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,649.10 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,659.98 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,875.00 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,918.44 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +16% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,002.02 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,147.34 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,294.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,441.34 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,661.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,027.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,027.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,027.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,393.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,759.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,759.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,759.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $5,125.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,125.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,125.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,125.40 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +102% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +102% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,491.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,564.72 | ↑ +117% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,613.60 | ↑ +119% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,049.44 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $6,223.70 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7,221.00 | ↑ +182% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $7,322.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,562.70 | $1,285.00 – $7,322.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $564.11 – $2,932.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $515.20 – $2,489.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $525.71 – $2,489.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $4,599.84 | $1,245.13 – $4,524.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $1,655.64 | $2,838.24 – $3,547.80 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $879.03 | $639.94 – $5,023.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $11,532.63 | $564.11 – $2,932.75 |