Implant 11 volt lithium-ion backup battery for controller pocket at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,827.30
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.
$8,078.00
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.
$1,469.79 with BCBS - TX vs $6,999.00 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 | $1,469.79 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,469.79 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,819.74 | ↓ -36% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,889.73 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,889.73 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,099.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,099.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,099.70 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,169.69 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $2,309.67 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,309.67 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,379.66 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,379.66 | ↓ -16% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,532.24 | ↓ -10% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,869.59 | ↑ +1% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,869.59 | ↑ +1% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,149.55 | ↑ +11% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $3,149.55 | ↑ +11% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $3,149.55 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,289.53 | ↑ +16% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,499.50 | ↑ +24% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,849.45 | ↑ +36% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,849.45 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $3,849.45 | ↑ +36% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,849.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,199.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $4,199.40 | ↑ +49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,549.35 | ↑ +61% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,549.35 | ↑ +61% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,549.35 | ↑ +61% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $4,549.35 | ↑ +61% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,549.35 | ↑ +61% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,899.30 | ↑ +73% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,899.30 | ↑ +73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,899.30 | ↑ +73% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $5,039.28 | ↑ +78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,249.25 | ↑ +86% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,782.58 | ↑ +105% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,949.15 | ↑ +110% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,999.00 | ↑ +148% |
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Implant 11 volt lithium-ion backup battery for controller pocket at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,827.30 | $1,469.79 – $6,999.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,036.19 – $2,273.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,036.19 – $2,273.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,036.19 – $2,273.28 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,098.50 | $382.50 – $2,289.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,000.40 | $277.88 – $2,025.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $5,000.40 | $292.38 – $1,949.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,098.50 | $360.00 – $2,289.44 |