Ghs removal pharyngeal foreign body at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$288.05
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.
$823.00
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.
$74.71 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 | $74.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $90.53 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $90.53 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $90.53 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $90.53 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $90.53 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $90.53 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $92.35 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $92.35 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $92.35 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $95.06 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $121.32 | ↓ -58% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $121.32 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $121.32 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $124.03 | ↓ -57% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $222.21 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $282.46 | ↓ -2% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $282.46 | ↓ -2% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $287.78 | ↓ -0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $297.77 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $305.42 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $334.50 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $337.43 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $370.35 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $386.81 | ↑ +34% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +39% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $399.69 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +39% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $399.69 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $399.69 | ↑ +39% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $403.69 | ↑ +40% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $407.68 | ↑ +42% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $407.68 | ↑ +42% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $411.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $419.67 | ↑ +46% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +48% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +48% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $452.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $452.65 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $452.65 | ↑ +57% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $453.87 | ↑ +58% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $479.63 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $493.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $493.80 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $534.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $534.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $534.95 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $534.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $534.95 | ↑ +86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $539.58 | ↑ +87% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $559.57 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $576.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $576.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $576.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $576.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $599.53 | ↑ +108% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $599.53 | ↑ +108% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $599.53 | ↑ +108% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $599.53 | ↑ +108% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $599.53 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $607.20 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $615.52 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $617.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $625.48 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $679.97 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $699.55 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $741.72 | ↑ +157% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $799.90 | ↑ +178% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $823.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +211% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +227% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +275% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,298.99 | ↑ +351% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +404% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +547% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +579% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +613% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +654% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +654% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +837% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +837% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +1691% |
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|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $288.05 | $65.84 – $823.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $745.36 – $745.36 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $451.00 – $632.65 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $632.65 – $632.65 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $460.00 | $130.33 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $257.73 | $53.05 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $381.72 | $71.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $460.00 | $122.67 – $987.04 |