Pentobarbital sodium inj at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$4,370.93
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.
$12,488.37
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.
$32.86 with BCBS - TX vs $4,207.81 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 | $32.86 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $41.26 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $51.84 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $67.54 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $73.02 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $118.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $158.95 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $162.05 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $162.05 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $162.05 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $167.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $167.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $925.72 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,094.04 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,094.04 | ↓ -75% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,136.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,346.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,388.58 | ↓ -68% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,522.39 | ↓ -65% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,725.21 | ↓ -61% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,893.52 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,977.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,061.83 | ↓ -53% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,061.83 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,061.83 | ↓ -53% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,103.91 | ↓ -52% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,314.30 | ↓ -47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,314.30 | ↓ -47% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,314.30 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,524.69 | ↓ -42% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $2,524.69 | ↓ -42% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,735.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,735.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,735.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,945.47 | ↓ -33% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,945.47 | ↓ -33% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $2,945.47 | ↓ -33% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $2,945.47 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,945.47 | ↓ -33% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $3,029.63 | ↓ -31% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,155.86 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,476.50 | ↓ -20% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,576.64 | ↓ -18% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,207.81 | ↓ -4% |
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Pentobarbital sodium inj at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $59.83 – $458.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $59.83 – $458.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $59.83 – $458.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $130.41 | $59.83 – $458.56 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $295.43 | $136.55 – $256.58 |
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $1,983.56 | $59.83 – $458.56 |
| Covenant Medical Center | Lubbock | $890.74 | $36.84 – $158.86 |
| Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (Ascension Seton) | Luling | $152.91 | $30.33 – $152.98 |