Insert swan-ganz cath at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,633.80
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.
$4,668.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $8,500.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.29 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,260.36 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↓ -11% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -5% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,555.96 | ↓ -5% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -5% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↓ -4% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -3% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -3% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↓ -2% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,633.76 | ↓ -0% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +2% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,688.89 | ↑ +3% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,867.15 | ↑ +14% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,913.88 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +20% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,100.55 | ↑ +29% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,100.60 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,178.34 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,193.96 | ↑ +34% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +43% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,333.94 | ↑ +43% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +43% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,333.94 | ↑ +43% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,333.94 | ↑ +43% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,334.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,396.18 | ↑ +47% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,567.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,567.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,567.40 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,789.23 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,800.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,034.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,034.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,034.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,267.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,267.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,267.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,267.60 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3,343.82 | ↑ +105% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $3,491.00 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,501.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,547.68 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,856.71 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,967.80 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,668.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $4,681.34 | ↑ +187% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,056.87 | ↑ +210% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $6,459.27 | ↑ +295% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $7,209.59 | ↑ +341% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $8,500.00 | ↑ +420% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $8,500.00 | ↑ +420% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,633.80 | $100.00 – $4,668.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3,604.80 – $3,604.80 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3,066.52 – $3,066.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3,604.80 – $3,604.80 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,551.79 | $1,006.34 – $4,439.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,952.26 | $71.00 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,505.49 | $71.00 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,551.79 | $947.14 – $17,181.00 |