Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$31.09
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.
$88.81
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.
$12.24 with BCBS - TX vs $88.81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $12.24 | ↓ -61% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $13.00 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $15.37 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $17.26 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $17.26 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $17.26 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $17.26 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $17.26 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.26 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $17.43 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.61 | ↓ -43% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $17.61 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $17.78 | ↓ -43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $18.12 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $19.31 | ↓ -38% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $19.32 | ↓ -38% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $19.32 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $19.54 | ↓ -37% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $21.67 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23.10 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23.10 | ↓ -26% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $23.30 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $23.98 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $24.87 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $25.16 | ↓ -19% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $25.28 | ↓ -19% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $25.89 | ↓ -17% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $25.89 | ↓ -17% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.89 | ↓ -17% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $25.89 | ↓ -17% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $25.89 | ↓ -17% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.06 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $27.20 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $27.81 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $28.42 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $29.31 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $31.98 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $31.98 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $31.98 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $32.14 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $33.75 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $33.75 | ↑ +9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $36.42 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $39.97 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $41.75 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $43.52 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $43.52 | ↑ +40% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.52 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $44.41 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $48.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $48.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $48.85 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $53.29 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $53.29 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $57.73 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $57.73 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $57.73 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $58.70 | ↑ +89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $62.17 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $62.17 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $62.17 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $62.17 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $62.17 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $63.95 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $66.61 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $73.38 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $75.49 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $88.81 | ↑ +186% |
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Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $31.09 | $14.82 – $88.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $17.23 – $136.94 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $17.23 – $136.94 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $129.63 | $52.36 – $52.36 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $75.16 | $50.86 – $65.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $66.80 | $18.08 – $136.94 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $58.45 | $14.82 – $125.25 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $4.76 | $3.47 – $24.48 |