Infectious agent nucleic acid quantification hiv-1 at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$303.45
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.
$867.00
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.
$61.27 with Renaissance vs $867.00 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 | $61.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $71.48 | ↓ -76% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $71.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $71.48 | ↓ -76% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $71.48 | ↓ -76% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $71.48 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $72.91 | ↓ -76% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $72.91 | ↓ -76% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $72.91 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $75.05 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $82.20 | ↓ -73% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $85.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $85.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $85.10 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $85.10 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $85.10 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $85.10 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $85.95 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $86.80 | ↓ -71% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $86.80 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $87.65 | ↓ -71% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $89.36 | ↓ -71% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $91.06 | ↓ -70% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $91.06 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $95.78 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $95.78 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $97.93 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $102.12 | ↓ -66% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $102.12 | ↓ -66% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $110.08 | ↓ -64% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $114.89 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $118.29 | ↓ -61% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $119.14 | ↓ -61% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $127.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $127.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $127.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $127.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $127.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $131.05 | ↓ -57% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $140.41 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $157.59 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $157.59 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $157.59 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $157.59 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $203.23 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $223.02 | ↓ -27% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $223.02 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $224.26 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $234.09 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $245.94 | ↓ -19% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $276.57 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $306.60 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $313.69 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $316.81 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $326.78 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $339.55 | ↑ +12% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $355.47 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $390.15 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $407.49 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $433.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $476.85 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $476.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $476.85 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $520.20 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $563.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $563.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $563.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $606.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $606.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $606.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $606.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $650.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $716.32 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $736.95 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $867.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid quantification hiv-1 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $303.45 | $61.27 – $867.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $71.48 – $349.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $70.05 – $349.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $71.48 – $349.86 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,054.41 | $76.59 – $327.64 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $448.31 | $10.00 – $560.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $327.28 | $12.00 – $490.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $426.38 | $12.00 – $532.97 |