Laryngoscopy w/fb & op scope at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,087.70
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.
$8,822.00
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.
$1,117.48 with TCHP vs $12,001.99 with NX Health — 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|All Other Plans | $1,117.48 | ↓ -64% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,117.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,117.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,117.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,117.48 | ↓ -64% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,139.83 | ↓ -63% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,139.83 | ↓ -63% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,139.83 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,173.35 | ↓ -62% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,285.10 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,369.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,497.42 | ↓ -52% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,497.42 | ↓ -52% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,518.30 | ↓ -51% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,530.95 | ↓ -50% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,609.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,648.00 | ↓ -47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,720.92 | ↓ -44% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,795.00 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,250.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,250.00 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,381.94 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2,467.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,658.90 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,701.96 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $2,705.64 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -4% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -4% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,191.80 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,262.00 | ↑ +6% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,486.54 | ↑ +13% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,486.54 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,594.00 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,617.02 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,692.92 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,692.92 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,692.92 | ↑ +20% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,692.92 | ↑ +20% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,692.92 | ↑ +20% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,692.92 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,729.85 | ↑ +21% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,766.78 | ↑ +22% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,766.78 | ↑ +22% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,803.71 | ↑ +23% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,877.57 | ↑ +26% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,951.42 | ↑ +28% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,951.42 | ↑ +28% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,969.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,146.34 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,411.00 | ↑ +43% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $4,431.50 | ↑ +44% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,852.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,852.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,852.10 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $4,904.64 | ↑ +59% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,985.44 | ↑ +61% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $5,170.09 | ↑ +67% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,180.13 | ↑ +68% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,252.00 | ↑ +70% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,252.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,293.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5,539.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $5,539.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,539.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $5,539.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,539.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $5,687.10 | ↑ +84% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $5,734.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,734.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,734.30 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,991.30 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,175.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,175.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,175.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,175.40 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $6,461.20 | ↑ +109% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,616.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,704.72 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,288.74 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $7,498.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $8,822.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,029.00 | ↑ +192% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $12,001.99 | ↑ +289% |
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Laryngoscopy w/fb & op scope at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,087.70 | $1,609.00 – $8,822.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,139.83 – $6,020.67 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,041.00 – $5,110.22 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,062.24 – $5,110.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,549.99 | $71.00 – $9,276.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,549.99 | $71.00 – $9,276.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,549.99 | $85.00 – $9,276.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,549.99 | $1,062.24 – $9,276.93 |