Intro cath dialysis circuit at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$5,167.40
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.
$14,764.00
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.
$140.00 with Cigna vs $14,764.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $469.48 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $469.48 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $469.48 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $478.87 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $478.87 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $478.87 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $492.95 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $527.58 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $539.90 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $619.34 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $629.10 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $629.10 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $643.19 | ↓ -88% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $723.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $957.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.29 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,232.94 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,313.22 | ↓ -75% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,464.78 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,464.78 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,555.96 | ↓ -70% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↓ -70% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↓ -69% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,633.76 | ↓ -68% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -68% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,867.15 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -62% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,100.55 | ↓ -59% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,178.34 | ↓ -58% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,333.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -55% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,396.18 | ↓ -54% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -43% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3,986.28 | ↓ -23% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,056.87 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $5,341.62 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $6,053.24 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $6,643.80 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $6,939.08 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $7,382.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $8,120.20 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $8,120.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8,120.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $8,858.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $9,596.60 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,596.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $9,596.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $10,334.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $10,334.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $10,334.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $10,334.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11,073.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12,198.02 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $12,549.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $14,764.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Intro cath dialysis circuit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $2,728.37 | $478.87 – $4,140.38 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $5,167.40 | $3,986.28 – $14,764.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $2,207.49 | $446.27 – $4,140.38 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $437.34 – $4,140.38 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,194.63 | $111.00 – $3,993.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,809.00 | $71.00 – $5,713.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,395.54 | $71.00 – $4,244.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,194.63 | $111.00 – $3,993.28 |