Ins vag brachytx device at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$283.15
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.
$809.00
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.
$122.81 with Wellpoint vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $122.81 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $122.81 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $122.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $122.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $122.81 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $125.27 | ↓ -56% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $125.27 | ↓ -56% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $125.27 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $128.95 | ↓ -54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $141.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $164.57 | ↓ -42% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $164.57 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $168.25 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $189.13 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $218.43 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $219.37 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $227.40 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $249.06 | ↓ -12% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $292.70 | ↑ +3% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $304.68 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $304.68 | ↑ +8% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $304.68 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $304.68 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $304.68 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $304.68 | ↑ +8% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $307.73 | ↑ +9% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $310.77 | ↑ +10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $310.77 | ↑ +10% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $313.82 | ↑ +11% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $319.91 | ↑ +13% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $326.01 | ↑ +15% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $326.01 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $331.69 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $364.05 | ↑ +29% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $365.62 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $380.23 | ↑ +34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $383.17 | ↑ +35% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $383.17 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $404.50 | ↑ +43% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $411.32 | ↑ +45% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $426.55 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $436.38 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $444.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $444.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $444.95 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $452.10 | ↑ +60% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $457.02 | ↑ +61% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $457.02 | ↑ +61% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $457.02 | ↑ +61% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $457.02 | ↑ +61% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $457.02 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $469.21 | ↑ +66% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $471.65 | ↑ +67% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $485.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $485.40 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $525.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $525.85 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $525.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $525.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $525.85 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $552.27 | ↑ +95% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $566.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $566.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $566.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $566.30 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $595.58 | ↑ +110% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $606.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $614.84 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $668.40 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $687.65 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $809.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $990.21 | ↑ +250% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↑ +322% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↑ +381% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↑ +408% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +413% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +558% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +590% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +625% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +667% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +667% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +854% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +854% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +1722% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $283.15 | $218.43 – $809.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $125.27 – $554.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $114.41 – $471.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $116.74 – $471.05 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $967.24 | $116.74 – $1,209.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,162.67 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,162.67 | $71.00 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $967.24 | $116.74 – $1,209.05 |