Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$191.51
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.
$547.16
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.
$1.94 with BCBS - TX vs $397.50 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|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1.94 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2.44 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $3.07 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3.90 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $4.00 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $4.32 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5.35 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5.35 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7.05 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $7.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $87.45 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $103.35 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $103.35 | ↓ -46% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $107.33 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $127.20 | ↓ -34% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $131.18 | ↓ -32% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $143.82 | ↓ -25% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $162.98 | ↓ -15% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $178.88 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $186.83 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $194.78 | ↑ +2% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $194.78 | ↑ +2% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $194.78 | ↑ +2% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $198.75 | ↑ +4% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $218.63 | ↑ +14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $218.63 | ↑ +14% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $218.63 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $238.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $238.50 | ↑ +25% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $258.38 | ↑ +35% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $258.38 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $258.38 | ↑ +35% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $278.25 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $278.25 | ↑ +45% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $278.25 | ↑ +45% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $278.25 | ↑ +45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $278.25 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $286.20 | ↑ +49% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $298.13 | ↑ +56% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $328.42 | ↑ +71% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $337.88 | ↑ +76% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $397.50 | ↑ +108% |
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Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $69.00 | $2.21 – $17.53 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $191.51 | $2.35 – $397.50 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $64.18 | $2.21 – $17.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1.94 – $17.53 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $317.93 | $8.32 – $8.32 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $567.57 | $6.00 – $12.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $418.13 | $1.94 – $17.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $67.24 | $2.21 – $17.53 |