Immunology procedure at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1.40
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.
$4.00
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.
$1.08 with OPTUM vs $80.47 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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| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1.08 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1.45 | ↑ +4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1.64 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1.80 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1.88 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3.31 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $53.34 | ↑ +3710% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $58.85 | ↑ +4104% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $80.47 | ↑ +5648% |
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Immunology procedure at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $924.47 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $305.00 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $796.22 | $99.55 – $99.55 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $289.39 | $10.00 – $107.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $321.98 | $12.00 – $114.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $312.60 | $12.00 – $95.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $289.39 | $10.00 – $107.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $321.98 | $12.00 – $114.31 |