Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$534.45
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.
$1,527.00
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.
$45.50 with BCBS - TX vs $1,527.00 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $45.50 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $46.27 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $77.89 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $82.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $101.92 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $119.54 | ↓ -78% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $151.94 | ↓ -72% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -61% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $211.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $211.03 | ↓ -61% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $211.03 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -61% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $213.14 | ↓ -60% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -60% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $217.36 | ↓ -59% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $221.58 | ↓ -59% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -58% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -58% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $253.24 | ↓ -53% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $284.89 | ↓ -47% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $295.44 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $316.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $316.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $316.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $324.99 | ↓ -39% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $342.11 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $368.71 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $412.29 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $505.66 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $505.66 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $505.66 | ↓ -5% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $552.47 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $626.07 | ↑ +17% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $685.85 | ↑ +28% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $687.15 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $717.69 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $763.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $839.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $839.85 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $839.85 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $916.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $992.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $992.55 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $992.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,068.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,068.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,068.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,145.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,261.61 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,297.95 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,527.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $534.45 | $56.30 – $1,527.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $90.23 – $436.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $90.23 – $436.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $90.23 – $436.84 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,833.06 | $148.46 – $148.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $488.60 | $118.38 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $558.06 | $114.87 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $527.15 | $105.43 – $658.94 |