Echo guide for artery repair at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$215.60
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.
$616.00
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.
$67.76 with TCHP vs $1,013.67 with NX Health — 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 | $67.76 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $67.76 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $90.80 | ↓ -58% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $166.32 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $208.88 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $222.87 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $224.55 | ↑ +4% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $224.57 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $241.33 | ↑ +12% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $252.56 | ↑ +17% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $259.29 | ↑ +20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $259.29 | ↑ +20% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $260.96 | ↑ +21% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $264.48 | ↑ +23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $266.18 | ↑ +23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $266.18 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $274.01 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $277.20 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $289.52 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $298.18 | ↑ +38% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $308.00 | ↑ +43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↑ +45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $311.90 | ↑ +45% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $315.02 | ↑ +46% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $318.14 | ↑ +48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $318.14 | ↑ +48% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $321.26 | ↑ +49% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $327.49 | ↑ +52% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↑ +55% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $338.80 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $338.80 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $338.80 | ↑ +57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $347.45 | ↑ +61% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $355.23 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $369.60 | ↑ +71% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $374.28 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $375.76 | ↑ +74% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $399.31 | ↑ +85% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $400.40 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $400.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $400.40 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $414.00 | ↑ +92% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $421.06 | ↑ +95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $431.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $431.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $431.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $431.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $436.66 | ↑ +103% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $442.58 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $462.00 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $466.51 | ↑ +116% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +117% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $467.85 | ↑ +117% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +117% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $467.85 | ↑ +117% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $467.85 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $480.33 | ↑ +123% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $508.94 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $523.60 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $532.83 | ↑ +147% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $550.06 | ↑ +155% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $559.00 | ↑ +159% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $586.83 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $609.25 | ↑ +183% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $616.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $618.00 | ↑ +187% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $618.00 | ↑ +187% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $720.03 | ↑ +234% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $808.98 | ↑ +275% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $808.98 | ↑ +275% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,013.67 | ↑ +370% |
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Echo guide for artery repair at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $215.60 | $49.28 – $616.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $259.29 – $1,006.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $255.74 – $1,006.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $259.29 – $1,006.85 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $512.15 | $105.42 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $612.68 | $206.06 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $687.35 | $206.06 – $859.18 |