Oxaliplatin 5 mg/ml desensitization at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$346.65
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.
$990.41
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.
$0.14 with United vs $427.68 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.14 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.18 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.19 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.19 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.19 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.19 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.19 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $0.26 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $0.33 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $0.41 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.54 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $0.58 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $94.09 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $111.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $111.20 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $115.48 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $136.86 | ↓ -61% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $141.14 | ↓ -59% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $154.74 | ↓ -55% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $175.35 | ↓ -49% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $192.46 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $201.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $209.57 | ↓ -40% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $209.57 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $209.57 | ↓ -40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $213.84 | ↓ -38% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $235.23 | ↓ -32% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $235.23 | ↓ -32% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $235.23 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $256.61 | ↓ -26% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $256.61 | ↓ -26% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $278.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $278.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $278.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $299.38 | ↓ -14% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $299.38 | ↓ -14% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $299.38 | ↓ -14% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $299.38 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $299.38 | ↓ -14% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $307.93 | ↓ -11% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $320.76 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $353.35 | ↑ +2% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $363.53 | ↑ +5% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $427.68 | ↑ +23% |
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Oxaliplatin 5 mg/ml desensitization at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $1,036.25 | $0.05 – $1.66 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $346.65 | $0.11 – $427.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.05 – $1.66 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.05 – $1.66 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $120.16 | $1.12 – $1.12 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $875.81 | $0.27 – $1.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $2,400.66 | $0.05 – $1.66 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $460.76 | $0.08 – $67.31 |