Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$69.65
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.
$199.00
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.
$25.26 with Renaissance vs $199.00 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 | $25.26 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $29.48 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $29.48 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $29.48 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $29.48 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $29.48 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $30.07 | ↓ -57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $30.07 | ↓ -57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $30.07 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.95 | ↓ -56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $33.90 | ↓ -51% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $35.09 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $35.09 | ↓ -50% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $35.09 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $35.44 | ↓ -49% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $35.79 | ↓ -49% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $35.79 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $36.14 | ↓ -48% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $36.84 | ↓ -47% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $37.55 | ↓ -46% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $37.55 | ↓ -46% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $39.50 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $39.50 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $40.39 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $42.11 | ↓ -40% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $42.11 | ↓ -40% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $45.40 | ↓ -35% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $47.37 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $48.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $49.13 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $52.64 | ↓ -24% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $52.64 | ↓ -24% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $52.64 | ↓ -24% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $52.64 | ↓ -24% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $52.64 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $53.73 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $54.04 | ↓ -22% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $57.90 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $65.00 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $65.00 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $65.00 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $65.00 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $72.00 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $81.59 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $83.45 | ↑ +20% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $89.55 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $91.98 | ↑ +32% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $91.98 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $92.08 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $93.53 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $99.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $101.41 | ↑ +46% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $109.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $109.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $109.45 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $114.04 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $119.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $125.88 | ↑ +81% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $129.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $129.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $129.35 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $130.69 | ↑ +88% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $134.75 | ↑ +93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $139.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $139.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $139.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $139.30 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $140.01 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $149.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $164.42 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $169.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $199.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $69.65 | $25.26 – $199.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $29.48 – $144.97 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $168.42 | $10.00 – $210.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $162.84 | $12.00 – $244.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $185.20 | $12.00 – $231.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $168.42 | $10.00 – $210.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $162.84 | $12.00 – $244.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $162.84 | $8.00 – $244.26 |