Fda ide #g240020 carry bag at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,696.10
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.
$4,846.00
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.
$330.12 with BCBS - TX vs $1,572.00 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $330.12 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $330.12 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $408.72 | ↓ -76% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $424.44 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $424.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $471.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $471.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $471.60 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $487.32 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $518.76 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $518.76 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $534.48 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $534.48 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $568.75 | ↓ -66% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $644.52 | ↓ -62% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $644.52 | ↓ -62% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $707.40 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $707.40 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $707.40 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $738.84 | ↓ -56% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $786.00 | ↓ -54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $864.60 | ↓ -49% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $864.60 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $864.60 | ↓ -49% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $864.60 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $943.20 | ↓ -44% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $943.20 | ↓ -44% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,021.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,021.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,021.80 | ↓ -40% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,021.80 | ↓ -40% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,021.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,100.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,100.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,100.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,131.84 | ↓ -33% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,179.00 | ↓ -30% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,298.79 | ↓ -23% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,336.20 | ↓ -21% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,572.00 | ↓ -7% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,696.10 | $330.12 – $1,572.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $202.48 – $444.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $202.48 – $444.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $202.48 – $444.21 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,143.98 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $1,696.10 | $330.12 – $1,572.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $1,696.10 | $330.12 – $1,572.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $1,696.10 | $330.12 – $1,572.00 |