Insertion tunneled centrally inserted central venous access device with port >= 5 years old (both sides) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$7,224.70
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.
$20,642.00
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.
$1,176.37 with TCHP vs $20,642.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,176.37 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,176.37 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,176.37 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,176.37 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,176.37 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,199.90 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,199.90 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,199.90 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,235.19 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,352.83 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,369.00 | ↓ -81% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,518.30 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,576.34 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,576.34 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,609.00 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,611.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,648.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,795.00 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,811.61 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,250.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,250.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.87 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2,327.88 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,549.58 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,128.00 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↓ -56% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,152.60 | ↓ -56% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↓ -56% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,152.60 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↓ -56% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,184.13 | ↓ -56% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,215.65 | ↓ -55% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,262.00 | ↓ -55% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,310.23 | ↓ -54% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↓ -53% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $3,438.93 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,594.00 | ↓ -50% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,670.27 | ↓ -49% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,670.27 | ↓ -49% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,783.12 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,211.00 | ↓ -42% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,256.01 | ↓ -41% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,413.64 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $4,628.04 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,680.00 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,680.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $4,728.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,728.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,728.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,787.23 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,855.00 | ↓ -33% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,252.00 | ↓ -27% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,252.00 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $5,573.34 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,653.41 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $6,096.82 | ↓ -16% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $7,468.28 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $8,463.22 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,029.00 | ↑ +25% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $9,288.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $9,701.74 | ↑ +34% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,245.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $10,321.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $11,353.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $11,353.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $11,353.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $12,385.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $13,417.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $13,417.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13,417.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $14,449.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14,449.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $14,449.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $14,449.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $15,481.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $15,687.92 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $17,054.43 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $17,545.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $20,642.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Insertion tunneled centrally inserted central venous access device with port >= 5 years old (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $24,804.93 | $1,199.90 – $5,681.12 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $8,094.00 | $1,095.86 – $4,822.03 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $7,224.70 | $1,609.00 – $20,642.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,118.22 – $4,822.03 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,470.54 | $1,118.22 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $6,873.92 | $71.00 – $10,310.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $7,897.88 | $71.00 – $9,872.35 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,470.54 | $1,118.22 – $7,896.23 |