Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe sars-cov-2/inf a & b at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$254.10
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.
$726.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $726.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $102.69 | ↓ -60% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $119.81 | ↓ -53% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $122.21 | ↓ -52% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $122.21 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $125.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $131.22 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $131.22 | ↓ -48% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $131.22 | ↓ -48% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $131.22 | ↓ -48% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $133.84 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $142.63 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $142.63 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $142.63 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $142.63 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $142.63 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $142.63 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $144.06 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $145.48 | ↓ -43% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $145.48 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $146.91 | ↓ -42% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $149.76 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $150.90 | ↓ -41% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $152.61 | ↓ -40% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $152.61 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $171.16 | ↓ -33% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $171.16 | ↓ -33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $175.83 | ↓ -31% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $175.83 | ↓ -31% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $179.77 | ↓ -29% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $192.55 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $196.02 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $198.26 | ↓ -22% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $199.68 | ↓ -21% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $202.08 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $213.90 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $213.90 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $213.90 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $213.90 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $213.94 | ↓ -16% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $213.94 | ↓ -16% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $213.94 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $213.94 | ↓ -16% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $213.94 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $219.65 | ↓ -14% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $235.34 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $262.67 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $297.66 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $326.70 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $341.22 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $363.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $399.30 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $399.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $399.30 | ↑ +57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $409.41 | ↑ +61% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $409.41 | ↑ +61% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $412.20 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $435.60 | ↑ +71% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $463.55 | ↑ +82% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $471.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $471.90 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $471.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $508.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $508.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $508.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $508.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $544.50 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $547.70 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $569.09 | ↑ +124% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $599.83 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $617.10 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $726.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe sars-cov-2/inf a & b at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $254.10 | $100.00 – $726.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $131.79 – $206.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $117.41 – $299.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $119.81 – $206.81 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $762.84 | $128.37 – $549.13 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $61.45 | $10.00 – $342.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $61.45 | $12.00 – $342.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $61.45 | $12.00 – $342.31 |