Injection glatiramer acetate at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$358.05
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.
$1,022.99
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.
$84.14 with BCBS - TX vs $1,022.99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $84.14 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $105.64 | ↓ -70% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $115.67 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $132.76 | ↓ -63% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $162.45 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $162.45 | ↓ -55% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $162.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $162.45 | ↓ -55% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $162.45 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $162.45 | ↓ -55% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $164.07 | ↓ -54% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $165.70 | ↓ -54% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $165.70 | ↓ -54% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $167.32 | ↓ -53% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $170.57 | ↓ -52% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $171.90 | ↓ -52% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $171.90 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $172.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $173.02 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $182.40 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $182.40 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $186.98 | ↓ -48% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $192.78 | ↓ -46% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $219.31 | ↓ -39% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $224.91 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $225.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $227.25 | ↓ -37% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $243.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $243.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $243.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $243.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $243.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $247.40 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $265.98 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $265.98 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $276.21 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $286.44 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $327.36 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $337.59 | ↓ -6% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $370.12 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $388.74 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $388.74 | ↑ +9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $419.43 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $460.35 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $480.81 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $501.27 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $501.27 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $501.27 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $511.50 | ↑ +43% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $522.11 | ↑ +46% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $562.65 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $562.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $562.65 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $613.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $613.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $664.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $664.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $664.95 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $716.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $716.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $716.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $716.10 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $716.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $736.56 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $767.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $845.20 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $869.55 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,022.99 | ↑ +186% |
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Injection glatiramer acetate at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $358.05 | $101.90 – $1,022.99 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $154.28 – $1,475.51 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $154.28 – $1,475.51 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $154.28 – $1,475.51 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $358.05 | $101.90 – $1,022.99 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $358.05 | $101.90 – $1,022.99 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $358.05 | $101.90 – $1,022.99 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $351.28 | $349.65 – $977.91 |