Inj levocarnitine per 1 gm at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$51.76
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.
$147.86
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.
$16.63 with Aetna vs $75.59 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 |
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| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $16.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $19.66 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $19.66 | ↓ -62% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $20.41 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $21.17 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $24.19 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $24.95 | ↓ -52% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $24.95 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $27.22 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $27.22 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $27.22 | ↓ -47% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $27.35 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $28.73 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $28.73 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $29.81 | ↓ -42% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $31.00 | ↓ -40% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $34.02 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $35.53 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $37.04 | ↓ -28% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.04 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $37.04 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $37.43 | ↓ -28% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↓ -27% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $41.58 | ↓ -20% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $41.58 | ↓ -20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $41.58 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $45.36 | ↓ -12% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $45.36 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $47.03 | ↓ -9% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $49.14 | ↓ -5% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $49.14 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $49.14 | ↓ -5% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $52.92 | ↑ +2% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $52.92 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $52.92 | ↑ +2% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $52.92 | ↑ +2% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $52.92 | ↑ +2% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $54.43 | ↑ +5% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $56.70 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $61.27 | ↑ +18% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $62.46 | ↑ +21% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $64.26 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $66.24 | ↑ +28% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $75.59 | ↑ +46% |
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Inj levocarnitine per 1 gm at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $284.34 | $24.38 – $287.52 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $51.76 | $16.63 – $75.59 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $382.23 | $24.38 – $287.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $23.27 – $287.52 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $136.62 | $25.40 – $193.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $136.62 | $25.40 – $204.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $136.62 | $25.40 – $170.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $136.62 | $25.40 – $193.54 |