Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,565.20
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.
$4,472.00
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 $4,472.00 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 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $164.15 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $166.93 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $235.90 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $235.90 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $235.90 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $240.62 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $240.62 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $240.62 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $247.69 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $271.29 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $281.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $299.09 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $316.11 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $323.18 | ↓ -79% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $363.29 | ↓ -77% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $395.42 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $431.24 | ↓ -72% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $491.92 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $491.92 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $549.19 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -65% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $549.19 | ↓ -65% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $549.19 | ↓ -65% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $554.68 | ↓ -65% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -64% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -64% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $576.65 | ↓ -63% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -62% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -62% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $659.03 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $659.18 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $736.01 | ↓ -53% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $736.01 | ↓ -53% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $741.41 | ↓ -53% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $768.87 | ↓ -51% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $808.04 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $823.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $823.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $823.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $845.75 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $943.00 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $992.74 | ↓ -37% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,207.44 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,269.00 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,410.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,410.00 | ↓ -10% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,617.97 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,784.87 | ↑ +14% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,833.52 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,012.40 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,101.84 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,236.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,459.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,459.60 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,459.60 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,683.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,906.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,906.80 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,906.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,130.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,130.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,130.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,354.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,694.77 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,801.20 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,472.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $3,379.24 | $241.58 – $325.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $11,008.00 | $231.18 – $325.52 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,565.20 | $100.00 – $4,472.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $7,493.10 | $235.90 – $325.52 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $6,224.83 | $535.57 – $535.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,798.47 | $232.89 – $3,498.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,872.38 | $420.11 – $4,308.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,974.04 | $232.89 – $3,717.55 |