Inj, levothyroxine, freskabi at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$115.33
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.
$329.50
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.
$25.91 with Aetna vs $117.77 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 | $25.91 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $30.63 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $30.63 | ↓ -73% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $31.80 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $32.98 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $37.69 | ↓ -67% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $38.87 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $38.87 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $42.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $42.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $42.40 | ↓ -63% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $42.61 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $44.76 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $44.76 | ↓ -61% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $48.29 | ↓ -58% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $53.00 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $55.36 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $57.71 | ↓ -50% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $57.71 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $57.71 | ↓ -50% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $58.89 | ↓ -49% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $64.78 | ↓ -44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $64.78 | ↓ -44% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $64.78 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $70.67 | ↓ -39% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $70.67 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $76.56 | ↓ -34% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $76.56 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $76.56 | ↓ -34% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $82.44 | ↓ -29% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $82.44 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $82.44 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $82.44 | ↓ -29% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $82.44 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $84.80 | ↓ -26% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $88.33 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $97.31 | ↓ -16% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $100.11 | ↓ -13% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $117.77 | ↑ +2% |
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Inj, levothyroxine, freskabi at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $532.15 | $6.40 – $17.52 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $115.33 | $25.91 – $117.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $6.94 – $17.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $6.40 – $17.52 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $570.13 | $6.61 – $299.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $570.13 | $7.65 – $359.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $570.13 | $6.61 – $299.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $570.13 | $6.61 – $299.33 |