Inj secretin synthetic human at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$28.80
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.
$82.26
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.
$18.10 with Aetna vs $142.54 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $18.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $21.39 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $21.39 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $22.22 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $23.04 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $26.33 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $27.15 | ↓ -6% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.15 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $29.53 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $29.62 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $29.62 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $29.62 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $29.77 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $31.26 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $31.26 | ↑ +9% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $31.58 | ↑ +10% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $33.73 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $37.02 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $37.08 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $38.67 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $40.31 | ↑ +40% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.31 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $40.31 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $41.13 | ↑ +43% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $42.64 | ↑ +48% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $42.64 | ↑ +48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $42.64 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $42.64 | ↑ +48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $42.64 | ↑ +48% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $42.64 | ↑ +48% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $43.07 | ↑ +50% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $43.49 | ↑ +51% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $43.49 | ↑ +51% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $43.92 | ↑ +53% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $44.77 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $45.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $45.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $45.25 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $46.59 | ↑ +62% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $46.93 | ↑ +63% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $46.93 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $49.36 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $49.36 | ↑ +71% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $52.63 | ↑ +83% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $53.47 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $53.47 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $53.47 | ↑ +86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $57.56 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $57.59 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $57.59 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $57.59 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $57.59 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $57.59 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $59.23 | ↑ +106% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $60.70 | ↑ +111% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $61.40 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $61.70 | ↑ +114% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.96 | ↑ +122% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $63.96 | ↑ +122% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $63.96 | ↑ +122% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $63.96 | ↑ +122% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $63.96 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $65.62 | ↑ +128% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $67.54 | ↑ +135% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $67.97 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $69.93 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $82.26 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $142.54 | ↑ +395% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $64.31 – $338.76 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $64.31 – $338.76 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $64.31 – $338.76 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $3,461.85 | $122.71 – $158.61 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $3,461.85 | $40.23 – $142.76 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $233.82 | $34.78 – $137.47 |
| Ascension Seton Northwest (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $233.82 | $34.78 – $137.47 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $233.82 | $34.78 – $137.47 |