Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$30,664.20
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.
$87,612.00
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.
$1.04 with BCBS - TX vs $72.75 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 | $1.04 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1.31 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1.65 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2.15 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $2.32 | ↓ -100% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $5.67 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.60 | ↓ -100% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $7.60 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $7.60 | ↓ -100% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $7.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $7.60 | ↓ -100% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $7.60 | ↓ -100% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $7.68 | ↓ -100% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $7.75 | ↓ -100% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.75 | ↓ -100% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $7.83 | ↓ -100% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $7.98 | ↓ -100% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $8.42 | ↓ -100% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $8.42 | ↓ -100% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $9.44 | ↓ -100% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $10.26 | ↓ -100% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $11.02 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $11.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $11.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $11.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $12.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.23 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $15.58 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $16.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $18.92 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $18.92 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $19.65 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $21.36 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $21.36 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $21.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $23.28 | ↓ -100% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $25.58 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $26.19 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $26.19 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $26.19 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $26.33 | ↓ -100% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $29.83 | ↓ -100% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $32.74 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $34.20 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $35.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $35.65 | ↓ -100% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $36.38 | ↓ -100% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $40.02 | ↓ -100% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $40.02 | ↓ -100% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $40.02 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $43.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $43.65 | ↓ -100% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $47.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $47.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $47.29 | ↓ -100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $50.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $50.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $50.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $50.93 | ↓ -100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $50.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $52.38 | ↓ -100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $54.57 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $60.11 | ↓ -100% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $61.84 | ↓ -100% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $72.75 | ↓ -100% |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $2.27 – $176.59 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $2.27 – $176.59 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2.27 – $176.59 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $983.93 | $4.47 – $4.47 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,185.54 | $9.78 – $80.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,185.54 | $13.26 – $96.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,185.54 | $9.78 – $80.54 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,185.54 | $9.78 – $80.54 |