ER Visit (level 2) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$505.40
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.
$1,444.00
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.
$30.82 with TCHPCHIP vs $1,444.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $30.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $53.93 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $59.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $114.21 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $150.99 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $152.27 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $158.84 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $158.84 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $158.84 | ↓ -69% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $160.21 | ↓ -68% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $161.79 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $161.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $163.38 | ↓ -68% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $166.55 | ↓ -67% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.72 | ↓ -66% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $169.72 | ↓ -66% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $190.34 | ↓ -62% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $214.14 | ↓ -58% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $219.66 | ↓ -57% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $222.07 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $244.27 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $258.48 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $275.11 | ↓ -46% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $389.88 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $396.68 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $507.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $510.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $510.00 | ↑ +1% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $515.51 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $522.44 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $556.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $559.00 | ↑ +11% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $649.80 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $665.00 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $678.68 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $722.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $776.00 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $794.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $794.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $794.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $798.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $866.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $938.60 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $938.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $938.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,010.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,010.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,010.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,010.80 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,046.00 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,083.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,097.44 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,160.00 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,160.00 | ↑ +130% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,193.04 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,227.40 | ↑ +143% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,240.20 | ↑ +145% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,405.00 | ↑ +178% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,444.00 | ↑ +186% |
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ER Visit (level 2) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $505.40 | $30.82 – $1,444.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $52.39 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $50.33 – $77.04 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $51.36 – $77.04 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $873.97 | $492.65 – $492.65 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $469.39 | $132.99 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $481.37 | $99.08 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $561.69 | $112.34 – $1,718.00 |