Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,651.25
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.
$7,575.00
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 $7,575.00 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 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $159.90 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $162.61 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $273.73 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $291.35 | ↓ -89% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $395.42 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $420.08 | ↓ -84% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $549.19 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $549.19 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $549.19 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $554.68 | ↓ -79% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -79% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $576.65 | ↓ -78% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -78% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -78% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $659.03 | ↓ -75% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $741.41 | ↓ -72% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $768.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $808.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $823.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $823.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $823.79 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $845.75 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $943.00 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,099.99 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,269.00 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,410.00 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,410.00 | ↓ -47% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,784.87 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,045.25 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,740.64 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,105.75 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,408.75 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,560.25 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,787.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,166.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,166.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,166.25 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,545.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,923.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,923.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,923.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $5,302.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,302.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,302.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,681.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,258.47 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $6,438.75 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $7,575.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $3,379.24 | $317.09 – $1,268.54 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,651.25 | $100.00 – $7,575.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $8,257.80 | $317.09 – $1,268.54 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $317.09 – $1,268.54 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,328.88 | $521.71 – $521.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,589.56 | $416.02 – $3,236.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,884.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,589.56 | $409.24 – $3,236.95 |