Metronidazole 500 mg/100 ml in sodium chlor(iso) intravenous piggyback at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$23.55
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.
$67.27
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.
$12.49 with Aetna vs $56.75 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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| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $12.49 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14.76 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.76 | ↓ -37% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $15.33 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $15.89 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $18.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.73 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $18.73 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20.43 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $20.43 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $20.43 | ↓ -13% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $20.54 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $21.57 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $21.57 | ↓ -8% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $23.27 | ↓ -1% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $25.54 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $26.68 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $27.81 | ↑ +18% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.81 | ↑ +18% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $27.81 | ↑ +18% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $28.38 | ↑ +21% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $31.22 | ↑ +33% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $31.22 | ↑ +33% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $31.22 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $34.05 | ↑ +45% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $34.05 | ↑ +45% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.89 | ↑ +57% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $36.89 | ↑ +57% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $36.89 | ↑ +57% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $39.73 | ↑ +69% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $39.73 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $39.73 | ↑ +69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $39.73 | ↑ +69% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $39.73 | ↑ +69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $40.86 | ↑ +74% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $42.57 | ↑ +81% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $46.89 | ↑ +99% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $48.24 | ↑ +105% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $56.75 | ↑ +141% |
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Metronidazole 500 mg/100 ml in sodium chlor(iso) intravenous piggyback at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $23.55 | $12.49 – $56.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.03 – $0.07 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.03 – $0.07 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.03 – $0.07 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $108.72 | $0.08 – $0.08 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $14.52 | $0.02 – $15.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $14.52 | $0.02 – $16.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $14.52 | $0.02 – $14.10 |