IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis initial up to 1 hour at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$641.55
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.
$1,833.00
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.
$85.90 with BCBS - TX vs $1,833.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $85.90 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $87.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $124.00 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $147.06 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $148.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $151.94 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $156.52 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $199.00 | ↓ -69% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -67% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $211.03 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -67% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $211.03 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $211.03 | ↓ -67% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $213.14 | ↓ -67% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -66% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $217.36 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $221.00 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $221.00 | ↓ -66% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $221.58 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $225.68 | ↓ -65% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -65% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -65% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $253.24 | ↓ -61% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $284.89 | ↓ -56% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $295.44 | ↓ -54% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $316.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $316.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $316.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $324.99 | ↓ -49% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $342.11 | ↓ -47% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $494.91 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $663.18 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $685.85 | ↑ +7% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $751.53 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $824.85 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $861.51 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $916.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,008.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,008.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,008.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,099.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,191.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,191.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,191.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,283.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,283.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,283.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,374.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,514.43 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,558.05 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,833.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis initial up to 1 hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $641.55 | $100.00 – $1,833.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $170.35 – $680.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $170.35 – $680.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $170.35 – $680.14 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,876.96 | $280.28 – $280.28 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $541.27 | $153.36 – $676.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $506.74 | $104.30 – $760.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $590.25 | $118.05 – $737.81 |