Obtaining screen pap smear at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$21.70
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.
$62.00
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.
$16.74 with OPTUM vs $79.72 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $16.74 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $17.66 | ↓ -19% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $22.44 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $23.78 | ↑ +10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $24.53 | ↑ +13% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $24.53 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $24.53 | ↑ +13% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $24.53 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↑ +13% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $24.53 | ↑ +13% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $24.78 | ↑ +14% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $25.02 | ↑ +15% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $25.02 | ↑ +15% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $25.27 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $25.42 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $25.68 | ↑ +18% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $25.76 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $26.21 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $26.21 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $26.21 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26.21 | ↑ +21% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $26.25 | ↑ +21% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $26.25 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $27.55 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $27.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $29.14 | ↑ +34% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $29.44 | ↑ +36% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $31.00 | ↑ +43% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $33.12 | ↑ +53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $34.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $34.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $34.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $34.34 | ↑ +58% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.80 | ↑ +70% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $36.80 | ↑ +70% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $36.80 | ↑ +70% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $36.80 | ↑ +70% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $36.80 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $37.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $37.78 | ↑ +74% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $40.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $40.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $40.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $41.32 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $43.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $43.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $43.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $46.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $51.23 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $52.70 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $57.28 | ↑ +164% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $62.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $62.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $62.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $62.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $62.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $62.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $79.72 | ↑ +267% |
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Obtaining screen pap smear at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $21.70 | $16.74 – $62.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $24.67 – $420.48 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $24.67 – $420.48 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $24.67 – $420.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $18.46 | $6.15 – $73.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $18.46 | $4.61 – $73.76 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - PFLUGERVILLE | Suite 100 | $18.46 | $3.38 – $102.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - TAYLOR | Taylor | $18.46 | $5.84 – $73.76 |