Injection for tear sac x-ray at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
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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.
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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.
$0.02 with BCBS - TX vs $2,700.00 with Humana — 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $0.02 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | — |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | — |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | — |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | — |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | — |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | — |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | — |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | — |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Commercial|Optum | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | not published by hospital | — |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | not published by hospital | — |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection for tear sac x-ray at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $201.29 | $34.51 – $287.55 |
| Texas Health Hospital Mansfield | Mansfield | $101.43 | $1,187.00 – $1,187.00 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $4,826.69 – $4,826.69 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $2,444.00 – $2,444.00 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | not published | $341.74 – $2,688.00 |
| Covenant Hospital Plainview | Plainview | not published | $2,613.00 – $2,613.00 |
| Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital | Cedar Park | not published | $55.18 – $1,000.00 |
| Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (Ascension Seton) | Luling | not published | $55.18 – $1,000.00 |