Penicillin g procaine inj at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$5.67
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.
$16.19
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.
$3.57 with Aetna vs $153.63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $3.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4.21 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4.21 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $4.38 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4.54 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $5.19 | ↓ -8% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5.35 | ↓ -6% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5.35 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5.83 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $5.83 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $5.83 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $5.86 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $6.16 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.16 | ↑ +9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $6.64 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $7.29 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $7.61 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.94 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $7.94 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $7.94 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $8.10 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.91 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8.91 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $8.91 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $9.72 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $9.72 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $10.53 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10.53 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $10.53 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $11.34 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $11.34 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $11.34 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $11.34 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $11.34 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $11.66 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.15 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $13.38 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $13.77 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $16.19 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $16.19 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $16.19 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $16.19 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $16.19 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $16.19 | ↑ +186% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $34.03 | ↑ +500% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $47.27 | ↑ +734% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $47.27 | ↑ +734% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $47.27 | ↑ +734% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $47.27 | ↑ +734% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $47.27 | ↑ +734% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $47.27 | ↑ +734% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $47.74 | ↑ +742% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $48.22 | ↑ +750% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $48.22 | ↑ +750% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $48.69 | ↑ +759% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $49.63 | ↑ +775% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $50.58 | ↑ +792% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $50.58 | ↑ +792% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $56.72 | ↑ +900% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $63.81 | ↑ +1025% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $66.18 | ↑ +1067% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $70.91 | ↑ +1151% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $70.91 | ↑ +1151% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $70.91 | ↑ +1151% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $70.91 | ↑ +1151% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $70.91 | ↑ +1151% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $72.80 | ↑ +1184% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $153.63 | ↑ +2610% |
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Penicillin g procaine inj at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $5.67 | $3.57 – $16.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $16.53 – $285.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $16.53 – $285.28 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $16.53 – $285.28 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $160.16 | $5.46 – $42.47 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $5.67 | $3.57 – $16.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $5.67 | $3.57 – $16.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $5.67 | $3.57 – $16.19 |