Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$96.23
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.
$274.94
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.
$13.38 with Aetna vs $60.80 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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| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $13.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.81 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.81 | ↓ -84% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $16.42 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $17.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $19.46 | ↓ -80% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.07 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $20.07 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.89 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $21.89 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $21.89 | ↓ -77% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $22.00 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.11 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $23.11 | ↓ -76% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $24.93 | ↓ -74% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $27.36 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $28.58 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $29.80 | ↓ -69% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $29.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $30.40 | ↓ -68% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $33.44 | ↓ -65% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $33.44 | ↓ -65% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $33.44 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $36.48 | ↓ -62% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $36.48 | ↓ -62% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $39.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $39.52 | ↓ -59% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $42.56 | ↓ -56% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $42.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $42.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $42.56 | ↓ -56% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $42.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $43.78 | ↓ -55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $45.60 | ↓ -53% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $50.24 | ↓ -48% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $51.68 | ↓ -46% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $60.80 | ↓ -37% |
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Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.25 – $0.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.26 – $0.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.25 – $0.63 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $442.13 | $0.91 – $0.91 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $71.30 | $5.67 – $9.45 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $145.39 | $5.46 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $96.23 | $13.38 – $60.80 |