Flexible Sigmoidoscopy at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$723.80
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.
$2,068.00
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.
$133.80 with BCBS - TX vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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|MyBlue Health Exchange | $133.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $137.46 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $137.46 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $137.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $137.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $137.46 | ↓ -81% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $140.21 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $140.21 | ↓ -81% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $140.21 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $144.33 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $153.37 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $157.08 | ↓ -78% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $158.08 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $184.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $184.20 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $188.32 | ↓ -74% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $211.69 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $242.88 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $312.70 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $333.06 | ↓ -54% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $428.88 | ↓ -41% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $428.88 | ↓ -41% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $558.36 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $657.50 | ↓ -9% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $748.21 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $847.88 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +24% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $913.19 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $913.19 | ↑ +26% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $913.19 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $913.19 | ↑ +26% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $913.19 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $913.19 | ↑ +26% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $922.32 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $930.60 | ↑ +29% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $931.45 | ↑ +29% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $931.45 | ↑ +29% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $940.59 | ↑ +30% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +30% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $958.85 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $971.96 | ↑ +34% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $977.11 | ↑ +35% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $977.11 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,034.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +49% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,095.83 | ↑ +51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,137.40 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,137.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,137.40 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,232.81 | ↑ +70% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,240.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,240.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,278.47 | ↑ +77% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,327.10 | ↑ +83% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,344.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,344.20 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,344.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,344.20 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,344.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,369.79 | ↑ +89% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,369.79 | ↑ +89% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,369.79 | ↑ +89% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,369.79 | ↑ +89% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,369.79 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,406.31 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,447.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,447.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,447.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,447.60 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,551.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,571.68 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,708.59 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,757.80 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +158% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +184% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,068.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +200% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +273% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +273% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,967.87 | ↑ +310% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +613% |
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Flexible Sigmoidoscopy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $140.21 – $1,050.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $128.06 – $1,050.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $130.67 – $1,050.08 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,047.06 | $118.14 – $2,444.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $723.80 | $558.36 – $2,068.00 |