Mr spectroscopy at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$273.70
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.
$782.00
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.
$63.50 with Renaissance vs $2,812.00 with Cigna — 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 | $63.50 | ↓ -77% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $88.19 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↓ -68% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $88.19 | ↓ -68% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $88.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $88.19 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $89.07 | ↓ -67% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $89.95 | ↓ -67% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $89.95 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $90.84 | ↓ -67% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $92.60 | ↓ -66% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↓ -66% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↓ -66% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $105.83 | ↓ -61% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $119.06 | ↓ -56% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $123.47 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $132.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $132.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $132.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $132.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $132.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $135.27 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $135.81 | ↓ -50% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $211.14 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $282.93 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $286.62 | ↑ +5% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $320.62 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $351.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $367.54 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $391.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $430.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $430.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $430.10 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $446.74 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $469.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $477.02 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $498.86 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $508.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $508.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $508.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $547.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $547.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $547.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $547.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $586.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $646.09 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $664.70 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $782.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $782.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $782.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $782.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $900.87 | ↑ +229% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,015.00 | ↑ +271% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,023.00 | ↑ +274% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,050.00 | ↑ +284% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,050.00 | ↑ +284% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,100.00 | ↑ +302% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,119.00 | ↑ +309% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,320.00 | ↑ +382% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,398.60 | ↑ +411% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,501.00 | ↑ +448% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,021.00 | ↑ +638% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,247.00 | ↑ +721% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,247.00 | ↑ +721% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,812.00 | ↑ +927% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Mr spectroscopy at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $273.70 | $211.14 – $1,398.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $153.71 – $6,665.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $153.71 – $6,665.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $153.71 – $6,665.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,322.36 | $83.05 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,442.45 | $225.11 – $2,163.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,442.45 | $83.05 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,322.36 | $83.05 – $2,149.00 |