IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis addl sequential infusion new drug/substance > 1 hour at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$326.55
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.
$933.00
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.
$37.42 with BCBS - TX vs $933.00 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $37.42 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $38.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $51.33 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $62.32 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $64.05 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $68.18 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $71.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $71.29 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $71.29 | ↓ -78% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $71.29 | ↓ -78% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $71.29 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $71.29 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $72.00 | ↓ -78% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $72.72 | ↓ -78% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $72.72 | ↓ -78% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $73.43 | ↓ -78% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $74.85 | ↓ -77% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $76.28 | ↓ -77% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $76.28 | ↓ -77% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $85.55 | ↓ -74% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $96.24 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $98.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $99.81 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $103.69 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $106.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $106.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $106.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $106.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $106.94 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $109.79 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $148.00 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $199.00 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $221.00 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $221.00 | ↓ -32% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $231.69 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $251.91 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $337.56 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $382.53 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $419.85 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $438.51 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $466.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $513.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $513.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $513.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $559.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $606.45 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $606.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $606.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $653.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $653.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $653.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $699.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $770.85 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $793.05 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $933.00 | ↑ +186% |
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IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis addl sequential infusion new drug/substance > 1 hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $326.55 | $46.30 – $933.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $74.20 – $295.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $74.20 – $295.90 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $74.20 – $295.90 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,833.06 | $122.08 – $122.08 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $280.91 | $68.71 – $351.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $243.30 | $50.08 – $364.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $230.40 | $46.08 – $288.00 |