Perflutren lipid microspheres 1.1 mg/ml intravenous suspension at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$135.10
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.
$386.00
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.
$72.82 with United vs $351.43 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 | $72.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $77.32 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $85.81 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $91.38 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $91.38 | ↓ -32% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $94.89 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $99.86 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $99.86 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $99.86 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $107.73 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $112.46 | ↓ -17% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $115.98 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $126.52 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $126.52 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $126.52 | ↓ -6% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $127.15 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $135.38 | ↑ +0% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $144.09 | ↑ +7% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $158.15 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $165.18 | ↑ +22% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $172.21 | ↑ +27% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $172.21 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $172.21 | ↑ +27% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $175.72 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $176.38 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $190.68 | ↑ +41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $193.29 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $193.29 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $193.29 | ↑ +43% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $210.86 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $210.86 | ↑ +56% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $228.43 | ↑ +69% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $228.43 | ↑ +69% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $228.43 | ↑ +69% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $246.01 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $246.01 | ↑ +82% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $246.01 | ↑ +82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $246.01 | ↑ +82% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $246.01 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $253.03 | ↑ +87% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $263.58 | ↑ +95% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $290.36 | ↑ +115% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $298.72 | ↑ +121% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $351.43 | ↑ +160% |
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Perflutren lipid microspheres 1.1 mg/ml intravenous suspension at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $510.40 | $41.88 – $474.44 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $135.10 | $59.42 – $351.43 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $40.21 – $474.44 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $41.88 – $474.44 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $517.93 | $367.06 – $367.06 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $939.94 | $43.95 – $1,331.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $939.94 | $43.95 – $1,409.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $939.94 | $43.95 – $1,253.26 |