Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$99.46
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.
$284.16
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.
$7.43 with BCBS - TX vs $89.11 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $7.43 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $9.33 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $11.73 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $15.28 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $16.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $19.61 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $22.02 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23.17 | ↓ -77% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $24.06 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $28.52 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $29.41 | ↓ -70% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $29.41 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $30.19 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $30.19 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $32.08 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $32.08 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $32.08 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $32.24 | ↓ -68% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $36.54 | ↓ -63% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $40.10 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $41.89 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $43.67 | ↓ -56% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.67 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $43.67 | ↓ -56% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $44.56 | ↓ -55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $49.02 | ↓ -51% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $49.02 | ↓ -51% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $49.02 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $53.47 | ↓ -46% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $53.47 | ↓ -46% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $57.93 | ↓ -42% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $57.93 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $57.93 | ↓ -42% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $62.38 | ↓ -37% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $62.38 | ↓ -37% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $62.38 | ↓ -37% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $62.38 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $62.38 | ↓ -37% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $64.16 | ↓ -35% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $66.84 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $73.63 | ↓ -26% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $75.75 | ↓ -24% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $89.11 | ↓ -10% |
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Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $99.46 | $9.00 – $89.11 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $13.88 – $92.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $11.29 – $92.92 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $254.73 | $31.80 – $31.80 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $50.47 | $13.67 – $71.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $50.47 | $10.39 – $75.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $50.47 | $10.09 – $63.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $50.47 | $13.46 – $71.50 |