Ghs IV thrombolytics - cerebral at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$159.25
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.
$455.00
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.
$50.05 with Wellpoint 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 |
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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $50.05 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $50.05 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $50.05 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $50.05 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $50.05 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $50.05 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $51.06 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $51.06 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $51.06 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $52.56 | ↓ -67% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $67.07 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $67.07 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $67.07 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $68.57 | ↓ -57% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $122.85 | ↓ -23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $156.16 | ↓ -2% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $156.16 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $164.62 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $186.55 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $204.75 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $213.85 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $227.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $239.21 | ↑ +50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $250.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $250.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $250.25 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $260.06 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $273.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $273.00 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $283.52 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $284.83 | ↑ +79% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $295.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $295.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $295.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $295.75 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $295.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $318.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $318.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $318.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $318.50 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +109% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $332.23 | ↑ +109% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $332.23 | ↑ +109% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +109% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $332.23 | ↑ +109% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $332.23 | ↑ +109% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $335.55 | ↑ +111% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $338.87 | ↑ +113% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $338.87 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $341.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $342.20 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $345.80 | ↑ +117% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $348.84 | ↑ +119% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $355.49 | ↑ +123% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $355.49 | ↑ +123% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $375.93 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $386.75 | ↑ +143% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $398.68 | ↑ +150% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $448.51 | ↑ +182% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $455.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $465.12 | ↑ +192% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $498.35 | ↑ +213% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $498.35 | ↑ +213% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $498.35 | ↑ +213% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $498.35 | ↑ +213% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $498.35 | ↑ +213% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $511.63 | ↑ +221% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $517.03 | ↑ +225% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $533.21 | ↑ +235% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $631.58 | ↑ +297% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $681.12 | ↑ +328% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,079.75 | ↑ +578% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +812% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +1070% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +1128% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +1190% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1264% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1264% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +1410% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +1595% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +1595% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +3140% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $159.25 | $36.40 – $455.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $634.68 – $634.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $333.47 – $538.70 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $538.70 – $538.70 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,019.74 | $288.93 – $1,274.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $906.44 | $71.00 – $1,359.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,019.74 | $71.00 – $1,274.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,019.74 | $271.93 – $1,274.68 |