Incisn windpipe at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,828.70
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.
$8,082.00
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.
$889.02 with TCHP vs $10,557.04 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $889.02 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $889.02 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $906.81 | ↓ -68% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,191.29 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,217.96 | ↓ -57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -49% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,182.14 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2,200.20 | ↓ -22% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,338.79 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,409.75 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,609.00 | ↓ -8% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,773.75 | ↓ -2% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,773.75 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $2,861.85 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,875.00 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,924.07 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,248.32 | ↑ +15% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,248.32 | ↑ +15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,248.32 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,248.32 | ↑ +15% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,248.32 | ↑ +15% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,248.32 | ↑ +15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,280.80 | ↑ +16% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,313.29 | ↑ +17% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,313.29 | ↑ +17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,313.62 | ↑ +17% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,345.77 | ↑ +18% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,410.74 | ↑ +21% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,475.70 | ↑ +23% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,475.70 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,636.00 | ↑ +29% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,636.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,798.54 | ↑ +34% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,897.98 | ↑ +38% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,041.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $4,374.21 | ↑ +55% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,385.23 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,445.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,445.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,445.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,547.65 | ↑ +61% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,574.94 | ↑ +62% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $4,849.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,849.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,872.48 | ↑ +72% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $4,872.48 | ↑ +72% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,872.48 | ↑ +72% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,872.48 | ↑ +72% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,872.48 | ↑ +72% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,896.00 | ↑ +73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $5,002.41 | ↑ +77% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,253.30 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,253.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,253.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,253.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $5,253.30 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,343.35 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,657.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $5,657.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,657.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,657.40 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $5,762.44 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,061.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,142.32 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,677.35 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $6,869.70 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7,221.00 | ↑ +155% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $8,082.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,557.04 | ↑ +273% |
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Incisn windpipe at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,828.70 | $646.56 – $8,082.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $5,369.54 – $5,369.54 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3,347.22 – $4,557.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $4,557.56 – $4,557.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,256.07 | $1,489.22 – $7,975.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,439.23 | $71.00 – $8,158.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,245.51 | $71.00 – $7,975.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,256.07 | $1,401.62 – $7,975.81 |