MRA without cont, lwr ext at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$972.65
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.
$2,779.00
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.
$174.32 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 | $174.32 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -75% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↓ -75% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↓ -75% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $242.11 | ↓ -75% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $244.53 | ↓ -75% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -75% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $249.37 | ↓ -74% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $254.22 | ↓ -74% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -73% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $279.65 | ↓ -71% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $290.53 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $300.62 | ↓ -69% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $326.85 | ↓ -66% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $338.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $363.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $372.85 | ↓ -62% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $384.80 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $624.55 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $736.41 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $750.33 | ↓ -23% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $786.86 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $815.64 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $950.00 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,005.45 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,015.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,023.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,050.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,050.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $1,100.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,119.00 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,139.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,143.00 | ↑ +18% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,250.55 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,306.13 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,320.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,389.50 | ↑ +43% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,398.60 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,501.00 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,528.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,528.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,528.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,667.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,806.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,806.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,806.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,945.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,945.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,945.30 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,021.00 | ↑ +108% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,084.25 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,247.00 | ↑ +131% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,247.00 | ↑ +131% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,296.01 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,362.15 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,779.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,812.00 | ↑ +189% |
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MRA without cont, lwr ext at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $972.65 | $328.59 – $2,779.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $410.15 – $437.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $410.15 – $437.25 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $410.15 – $437.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,691.95 | $466.08 – $2,396.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,754.28 | $361.09 – $2,631.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,754.28 | $350.86 – $2,577.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,691.95 | $451.19 – $2,577.00 |