Electron microscopy diagnostic at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,464.40
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.
$4,184.00
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.
$406.70 with BCBS - TX vs $4,184.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $406.70 | ↓ -72% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $589.12 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $753.84 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $811.44 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $811.44 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $811.44 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $811.44 | ↓ -45% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $818.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $818.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $818.22 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $818.22 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $818.22 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $818.22 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $826.40 | ↓ -44% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $834.58 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $834.58 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $842.77 | ↓ -42% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $859.13 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $873.20 | ↓ -40% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $875.50 | ↓ -40% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $875.50 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $920.32 | ↓ -37% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $981.86 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,015.53 | ↓ -31% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,095.91 | ↓ -25% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,104.60 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,129.68 | ↓ -23% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,145.51 | ↓ -22% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,227.33 | ↓ -16% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,227.33 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,227.33 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,227.33 | ↓ -16% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,227.33 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,260.06 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,388.42 | ↓ -5% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,513.78 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,715.44 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,815.50 | ↑ +24% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,882.80 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,966.48 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,092.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,301.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,301.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,301.20 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $2,412.29 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,506.52 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,510.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $2,552.24 | ↑ +74% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,659.22 | ↑ +82% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,719.60 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,719.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,719.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,928.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,928.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,928.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,928.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,138.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,456.83 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,556.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,184.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,464.40 | $811.44 – $4,184.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $656.15 – $2,781.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $656.15 – $2,781.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $656.15 – $2,781.28 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,817.00 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,817.00 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,817.00 | $36.00 – $2,130.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,817.00 | $35.00 – $2,130.15 |