Lymph vessel x-ray trunk at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$4,792.55
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.
$13,693.00
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.
$146.54 with Wellpoint vs $13,693.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $146.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $146.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $146.54 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $149.47 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $149.47 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $149.47 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $153.87 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $168.52 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $196.36 | ↓ -96% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $200.76 | ↓ -96% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $225.67 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $457.20 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $457.20 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $582.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $653.63 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $719.87 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $782.00 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $859.83 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $869.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $869.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $883.28 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,506.23 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,506.23 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $2,018.35 | ↓ -58% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.87 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↓ -34% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↓ -34% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↓ -34% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,152.60 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,152.60 | ↓ -34% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,184.13 | ↓ -34% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↓ -33% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,215.65 | ↓ -33% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↓ -32% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,310.23 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3,325.54 | ↓ -31% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↓ -30% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3,574.95 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3,697.11 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,783.12 | ↓ -21% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,256.01 | ↓ -11% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,413.64 | ↓ -8% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↓ -1% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,728.90 | ↓ -1% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↓ -1% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,728.90 | ↓ -1% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $4,728.90 | ↓ -1% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,787.23 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,855.00 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $4,954.13 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $5,614.13 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $6,161.85 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $6,435.71 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $6,846.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $7,427.03 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $7,531.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $7,531.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $7,531.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $8,215.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $8,352.73 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,757.24 | ↑ +83% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $8,900.45 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,900.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $8,900.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $9,585.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $9,585.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9,585.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $9,585.10 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $9,699.48 | ↑ +102% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,245.95 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10,269.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $11,313.16 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $11,639.05 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $13,693.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Lymph vessel x-ray trunk at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $4,792.55 | $140.00 – $13,693.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $146.54 – $16,825.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $143.61 – $16,825.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $146.54 – $16,825.83 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,238.59 | $146.54 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,859.41 | $588.56 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,643.68 | $146.54 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,238.59 | $146.54 – $7,896.23 |