Low cost skin substitute app at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$518.00
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.
$1,480.00
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.
$100.00 with Humana vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $399.60 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $417.50 | ↓ -19% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $441.45 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $457.26 | ↓ -12% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $535.47 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $606.80 | ↑ +17% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $613.12 | ↑ +18% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +18% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $613.12 | ↑ +18% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +18% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $613.12 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $613.12 | ↑ +18% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $619.25 | ↑ +20% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $625.38 | ↑ +21% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $625.38 | ↑ +21% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $631.51 | ↑ +22% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $643.78 | ↑ +24% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $656.04 | ↑ +27% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $656.04 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $666.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $695.60 | ↑ +34% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $735.74 | ↑ +42% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $740.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $814.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $814.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $814.00 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $827.71 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $830.02 | ↑ +60% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $858.37 | ↑ +66% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $875.84 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $888.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $919.68 | ↑ +78% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $919.68 | ↑ +78% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $919.68 | ↑ +78% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $919.68 | ↑ +78% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $919.68 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $944.20 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $962.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $962.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $962.00 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $962.00 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,013.92 | ↑ +96% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,036.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,036.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,036.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,036.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,036.00 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,093.44 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,110.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,124.80 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↑ +131% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,222.78 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,258.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↑ +178% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +180% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,480.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +260% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +277% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,992.64 | ↑ +285% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +297% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +319% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +319% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +896% |
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Low cost skin substitute app at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $518.00 | $90.00 – $1,480.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,018.89 – $1,018.89 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $864.81 – $864.81 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $818.58 | $507.58 – $4,524.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $288.05 | $54.73 – $617.25 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $140.88 | $102.56 – $805.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $393.75 | $525.00 – $2,362.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $518.00 | $90.00 – $1,480.00 |