Insertion of catheter vein at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$496.65
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.
$1,419.00
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.
$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 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -80% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $383.13 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $513.40 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $581.79 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $638.55 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $666.93 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $709.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $780.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $780.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $780.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $851.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $851.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $922.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $922.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $922.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $922.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $922.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $993.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $993.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $993.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $993.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,064.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,078.44 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,172.38 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,206.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,419.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +192% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +294% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +337% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +337% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +384% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +444% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +444% |
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Insertion of catheter vein at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $496.65 | $100.00 – $1,419.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,799.84 | $509.95 – $2,549.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $658.69 | $71.00 – $988.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $538.61 | $71.00 – $673.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,799.84 | $479.96 – $2,549.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $658.69 | $85.00 – $988.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $658.69 | $340.32 – $988.03 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $538.61 | $71.00 – $807.92 |