Ghs gastric intub aspiration lavage at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$258.65
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.
$739.00
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.
$80.90 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|Transplant | $80.90 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $81.29 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $81.29 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $81.29 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $81.29 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $81.29 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $81.29 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $82.92 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $82.92 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $82.92 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $85.36 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $108.93 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $108.93 | ↓ -58% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $108.93 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $111.37 | ↓ -57% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $199.53 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $212.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $224.57 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $232.85 | ↓ -10% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $253.63 | ↓ -2% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $253.63 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $267.38 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $302.99 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↑ +21% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↑ +21% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $311.90 | ↑ +21% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +21% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $315.02 | ↑ +22% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $318.14 | ↑ +23% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $318.14 | ↑ +23% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $321.26 | ↑ +24% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $327.49 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $332.55 | ↑ +29% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↑ +29% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $347.33 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $369.50 | ↑ +43% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $374.28 | ↑ +45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $406.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $406.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $406.45 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $421.06 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $422.68 | ↑ +63% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $436.66 | ↑ +69% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $442.58 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $443.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $443.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +81% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +81% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $467.85 | ↑ +81% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $467.85 | ↑ +81% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $467.85 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $480.33 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $480.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $480.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $480.35 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $480.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $480.35 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $516.32 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $517.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $517.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $517.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $517.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $554.25 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $556.82 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $561.64 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $610.57 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $628.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $739.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +246% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +264% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,013.67 | ↑ +292% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +317% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +461% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +621% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +656% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +694% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +740% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +740% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +944% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +944% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +1895% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $258.65 | $59.12 – $739.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $518.85 – $518.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $217.99 – $440.39 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $440.39 – $440.39 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $505.63 | $143.26 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $227.28 | $46.78 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $130.25 | $26.05 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $505.63 | $134.84 – $777.56 |