Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$73.85
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.
$211.00
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.
$29.79 with Renaissance vs $211.00 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 | $29.79 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $34.76 | ↓ -53% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $35.46 | ↓ -52% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $35.46 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.50 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $38.07 | ↓ -48% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $38.07 | ↓ -48% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $38.07 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $38.07 | ↓ -48% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $38.83 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $41.38 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $41.38 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $41.38 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $41.79 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $42.21 | ↓ -43% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $42.21 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $42.62 | ↓ -42% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $43.45 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $43.78 | ↓ -41% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↓ -40% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $49.66 | ↓ -33% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $49.66 | ↓ -33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $51.01 | ↓ -31% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $51.01 | ↓ -31% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $52.16 | ↓ -29% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $55.86 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $56.97 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $57.52 | ↓ -22% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $57.93 | ↓ -22% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $58.63 | ↓ -21% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $62.07 | ↓ -16% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $62.07 | ↓ -16% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $62.07 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $62.07 | ↓ -16% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $62.07 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $62.22 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $62.22 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $62.22 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $62.22 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $63.73 | ↓ -14% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.28 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $76.34 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $86.51 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $94.95 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $99.17 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $105.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $116.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $116.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $116.05 | ↑ +57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $118.78 | ↑ +61% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $118.78 | ↑ +61% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $119.59 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $126.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $128.71 | ↑ +74% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $134.49 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $137.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $137.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $137.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $147.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $147.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $147.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $147.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $158.25 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $158.90 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $165.11 | ↑ +124% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $174.33 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $179.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $211.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $38.24 – $166.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $34.06 – $141.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $34.76 – $166.17 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $125.69 | $33.02 – $269.33 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $32.38 | $37.38 – $166.50 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $30.15 | $34.76 – $180.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |