Hemoglobin at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$91.00
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.
$260.00
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.
$1.71 with Renaissance vs $260.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1.71 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1.99 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1.99 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1.99 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2.03 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.03 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2.03 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.09 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.29 | ↓ -97% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2.37 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $2.37 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2.37 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $2.39 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $2.42 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $2.44 | ↓ -97% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $2.49 | ↓ -97% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $2.54 | ↓ -97% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2.54 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $2.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $2.67 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $2.73 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2.84 | ↓ -97% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $2.84 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $3.06 | ↓ -97% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $3.20 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $3.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $3.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $3.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $3.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $3.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3.91 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4.40 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4.40 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4.40 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.40 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $5.78 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6.21 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $6.37 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $6.85 | ↓ -92% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $7.70 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $8.72 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $8.82 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $9.10 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $9.46 | ↓ -90% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $70.20 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $94.07 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $106.60 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $117.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $122.20 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $130.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $143.00 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $143.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $143.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $156.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $158.60 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $169.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $169.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $169.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $182.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $182.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $182.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $182.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $195.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $214.82 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $221.00 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $260.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hemoglobin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $91.00 | $1.71 – $260.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1.99 – $9.74 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1.95 – $9.74 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1.99 – $9.74 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $64.20 | $2.13 – $9.12 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $43.41 | $1.99 – $54.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $47.99 | $3.48 – $71.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $46.90 | $1.99 – $58.63 |