Pet image ltd area at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,243.15
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.
$6,409.00
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.
$704.99 with TCHP vs $9,370.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $704.99 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $704.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $941.46 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $944.69 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,307.59 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,307.59 | ↓ -42% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,307.59 | ↓ -42% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,307.59 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,307.59 | ↓ -42% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,307.59 | ↓ -42% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,320.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,327.27 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,327.27 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,327.27 | ↓ -41% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,333.74 | ↓ -41% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,333.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,346.82 | ↓ -40% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,353.82 | ↓ -40% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,353.82 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,353.82 | ↓ -40% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,372.97 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,393.63 | ↓ -38% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,399.12 | ↓ -38% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,399.12 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,475.15 | ↓ -34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,526.36 | ↓ -32% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,569.11 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,647.25 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,730.43 | ↓ -23% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,765.25 | ↓ -21% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,778.54 | ↓ -21% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,818.36 | ↓ -19% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,830.63 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,961.38 | ↓ -13% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,961.38 | ↓ -13% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,961.38 | ↓ -13% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,961.38 | ↓ -13% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,961.38 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,013.69 | ↓ -10% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $2,044.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,185.34 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,318.78 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $2,384.92 | ↑ +6% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,585.00 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,627.69 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,884.05 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,913.00 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,012.23 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,204.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $3,294.50 | ↑ +47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,385.00 | ↑ +51% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,481.00 | ↑ +55% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,524.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,524.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,524.95 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,730.00 | ↑ +66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,754.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,845.40 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,866.00 | ↑ +72% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,866.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $3,909.49 | ↑ +74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,141.08 | ↑ +85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,141.08 | ↑ +85% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,165.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,165.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,165.85 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $4,249.67 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,486.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,486.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,486.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,486.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,806.75 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,064.67 | ↑ +126% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,295.12 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $5,359.70 | ↑ +139% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,447.65 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,409.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,370.00 | ↑ +318% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,243.15 | $512.72 – $6,409.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,305.94 – $2,642.97 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,300.72 – $2,458.58 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,305.94 – $2,642.97 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,253.07 | $1,235.52 – $5,371.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,677.40 | $756.93 – $5,516.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,809.11 | $1,235.52 – $5,371.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,253.07 | $1,235.52 – $5,371.00 |