Meperidine (pf) 25 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$128.18
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.
$366.21
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.
$1.64 with BCBS - TX vs $54.40 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1.64 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2.06 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2.58 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $3.37 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3.64 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $11.97 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $12.18 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14.15 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.15 | ↓ -89% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $16.70 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $16.70 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $17.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17.96 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $19.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $19.59 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $19.59 | ↓ -85% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $19.69 | ↓ -85% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $22.31 | ↓ -83% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $24.48 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $25.57 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $26.66 | ↓ -79% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $26.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $27.20 | ↓ -79% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $29.92 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $29.92 | ↓ -77% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $29.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $32.64 | ↓ -75% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $32.64 | ↓ -75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $35.36 | ↓ -72% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $35.36 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $35.36 | ↓ -72% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $38.08 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $38.08 | ↓ -70% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $38.08 | ↓ -70% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $38.08 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $38.08 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $39.17 | ↓ -69% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $40.80 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $44.95 | ↓ -65% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $46.24 | ↓ -64% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $54.40 | ↓ -58% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Meperidine (pf) 25 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $128.18 | $1.98 – $54.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3.57 – $39.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3.57 – $39.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3.57 – $39.64 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $63.51 | $7.01 – $7.01 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $57.96 | $6.81 – $54.93 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $9.94 | $3.57 – $39.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $4.05 | $1.98 – $11.55 |