Ghs layer closure 7.6 - 12.5 cm - 12044 at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$491.75
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.
$1,405.00
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.
$151.73 with BCBS - TX vs $7,221.00 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 | $151.73 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $228.07 | ↓ -54% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $228.07 | ↓ -54% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $228.07 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $228.07 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $228.07 | ↓ -54% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $232.63 | ↓ -53% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $232.63 | ↓ -53% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $232.63 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $239.47 | ↓ -51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $262.28 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $305.61 | ↓ -38% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $305.61 | ↓ -38% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $312.46 | ↓ -36% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $351.23 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $379.35 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $417.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $441.45 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $457.26 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $508.33 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $576.05 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +25% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +25% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $613.12 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $613.12 | ↑ +25% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $613.12 | ↑ +25% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $619.25 | ↑ +26% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $625.38 | ↑ +27% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $625.38 | ↑ +27% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $631.51 | ↑ +28% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $632.25 | ↑ +29% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $643.78 | ↑ +31% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $656.04 | ↑ +33% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $656.04 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $660.35 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $702.50 | ↑ +43% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $711.58 | ↑ +45% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $711.58 | ↑ +45% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $735.74 | ↑ +50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $772.75 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $772.75 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $772.75 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $827.71 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $830.02 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $843.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $858.37 | ↑ +75% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $875.84 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $913.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $913.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $913.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $919.68 | ↑ +87% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $919.68 | ↑ +87% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $919.68 | ↑ +87% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $919.68 | ↑ +87% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $919.68 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $944.20 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $983.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $983.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $983.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $983.50 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,013.92 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,053.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,067.80 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,093.44 | ↑ +122% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,160.82 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,194.25 | ↑ +143% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,285.00 | ↑ +161% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↑ +177% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,405.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↑ +192% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +195% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↑ +241% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +298% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,980.00 | ↑ +303% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,980.00 | ↑ +303% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,992.64 | ↑ +305% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +342% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +342% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,609.00 | ↑ +431% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,875.00 | ↑ +485% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +954% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +954% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7,221.00 | ↑ +1368% |
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Ghs layer closure 7.6 - 12.5 cm - 12044 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $491.75 | $379.35 – $1,405.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $232.63 – $1,018.89 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $212.46 – $864.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $216.80 – $864.81 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $719.66 | $216.80 – $1,596.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $966.69 | $71.00 – $1,555.84 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $719.66 | $71.00 – $1,555.84 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $719.66 | $216.80 – $1,596.25 |