Echo tee guidance at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,253.25
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.
$9,295.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $9,295.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $219.53 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $219.53 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $219.86 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $223.92 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $224.26 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $224.26 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $230.85 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $252.46 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $279.40 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $284.14 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $294.17 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $300.76 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $338.08 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $478.30 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $509.08 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $684.93 | ↓ -79% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $684.93 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $734.02 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $943.00 | ↓ -71% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,022.45 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,022.45 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,269.00 | ↓ -61% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,370.09 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,410.00 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,410.00 | ↓ -57% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,509.65 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,362.94 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,810.95 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,182.75 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,368.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,647.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,112.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,112.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,112.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,577.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,041.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,041.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,041.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,506.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,506.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,506.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,971.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,679.53 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $7,900.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,295.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Echo tee guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $8,481.68 | $219.53 – $554.07 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,253.25 | $100.00 – $9,295.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $7,493.10 | $219.53 – $554.07 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $215.46 – $554.07 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,967.40 | $238.59 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,773.93 | $219.86 – $4,717.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |