Lymphocytotoxicity assay at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$241.15
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.
$689.00
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.
$136.45 with Renaissance vs $689.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $136.45 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $159.19 | ↓ -34% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $159.19 | ↓ -34% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $159.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $159.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $159.19 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $162.37 | ↓ -33% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $162.37 | ↓ -33% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $162.37 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $167.15 | ↓ -31% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $183.07 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $186.03 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $189.51 | ↓ -21% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $189.51 | ↓ -21% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $189.51 | ↓ -21% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $189.51 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $189.51 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $189.51 | ↓ -21% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $191.41 | ↓ -21% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $193.30 | ↓ -20% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $193.30 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $194.67 | ↓ -19% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $195.20 | ↓ -19% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $198.99 | ↓ -17% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $202.78 | ↓ -16% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $202.78 | ↓ -16% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $213.31 | ↓ -12% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $213.31 | ↓ -12% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $218.09 | ↓ -10% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $227.41 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $227.41 | ↓ -6% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $245.15 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $249.29 | ↑ +3% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $255.84 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $263.42 | ↑ +9% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $265.31 | ↑ +10% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $282.49 | ↑ +17% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $284.26 | ↑ +18% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $284.26 | ↑ +18% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $284.26 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $284.26 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $284.26 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $284.27 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $284.27 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $284.27 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $284.27 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $291.85 | ↑ +21% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $310.05 | ↑ +29% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $312.69 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $323.83 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $344.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $378.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $378.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $378.95 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $413.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $447.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $447.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $447.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $452.72 | ↑ +88% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $482.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $482.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $482.30 | ↑ +100% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $496.67 | ↑ +106% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $496.67 | ↑ +106% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $499.56 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $516.75 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $547.68 | ↑ +127% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $569.26 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $585.65 | ↑ +143% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $615.91 | ↑ +155% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $683.00 | ↑ +183% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $689.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $689.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $689.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Lymphocytotoxicity assay at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $241.15 | $136.45 – $689.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $159.19 – $779.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $156.01 – $779.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $159.19 – $779.23 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $370.20 | $10.00 – $462.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $399.82 | $12.00 – $599.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $399.82 | $12.00 – $499.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $370.20 | $10.00 – $462.75 |