Myelography via inj w/s&i cervical at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,896.30
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.
$5,418.00
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.
$569.76 with Renaissance vs $10,059.00 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 | $569.76 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $571.89 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $626.35 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -58% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -58% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $791.34 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $791.34 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $791.34 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $799.25 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -57% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -57% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $830.91 | ↓ -56% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -55% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -53% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $949.61 | ↓ -50% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,068.31 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,107.88 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,136.97 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,187.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,187.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,187.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,218.66 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,375.26 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,388.87 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,462.86 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,960.24 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,221.38 | ↑ +17% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,438.10 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,546.46 | ↑ +34% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,571.86 | ↑ +36% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,709.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,979.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,979.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,979.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,250.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,521.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,521.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,521.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,635.00 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,792.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,792.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,792.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,792.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $4,005.00 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,063.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,117.68 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,476.36 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $4,605.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $5,418.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10,059.00 | ↑ +430% |
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Myelography via inj w/s&i cervical at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,896.30 | $1,462.86 – $5,418.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,111.63 – $1,395.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $791.43 – $1,184.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,111.63 – $1,184.63 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.67 | $461.74 – $2,037.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,511.36 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,185.83 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.67 | $434.58 – $2,037.08 |