Pet image skull-thigh at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,108.75
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.
$6,025.00
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.
$662.75 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|STARKIDS | $662.75 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $662.75 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $888.09 | ↓ -58% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,051.88 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -31% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,460.95 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,460.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,460.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,460.95 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,475.56 | ↓ -30% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,489.35 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,489.35 | ↓ -29% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,489.35 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,490.17 | ↓ -29% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,490.17 | ↓ -29% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,504.78 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,519.14 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,519.14 | ↓ -28% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,519.14 | ↓ -28% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,534.00 | ↓ -27% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,563.22 | ↓ -26% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,563.22 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,563.82 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,626.75 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,650.73 | ↓ -22% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,712.75 | ↓ -19% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.14 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,843.32 | ↓ -13% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,972.28 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,995.73 | ↓ -5% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $2,040.41 | ↓ -3% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,045.33 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,179.85 | ↑ +3% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,191.43 | ↑ +4% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,191.43 | ↑ +4% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,191.43 | ↑ +4% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,191.43 | ↑ +4% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,191.43 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,249.86 | ↑ +7% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $2,293.60 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $2,384.92 | ↑ +13% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,470.25 | ↑ +17% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,475.07 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,585.00 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,711.25 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,831.75 | ↑ +34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,913.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,012.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,313.75 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,313.75 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,313.75 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,385.00 | ↑ +61% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,481.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,615.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $3,675.25 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $3,686.63 | ↑ +75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,730.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,754.00 | ↑ +78% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,866.00 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,866.00 | ↑ +83% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,916.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,916.25 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,916.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,217.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,217.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,217.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,217.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,518.75 | ↑ +114% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,646.77 | ↑ +120% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,646.77 | ↑ +120% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $4,748.09 | ↑ +125% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,977.86 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,121.25 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $5,667.51 | ↑ +169% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $5,997.66 | ↑ +184% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,025.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,370.00 | ↑ +344% |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $10,257.31 | $1,480.34 – $2,957.56 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,108.75 | $482.00 – $6,025.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,459.56 – $2,751.22 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,480.34 – $2,957.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,658.45 | $958.87 – $6,987.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,795.47 | $1,364.64 – $5,994.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,658.45 | $1,364.64 – $6,987.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,658.45 | $1,458.59 – $6,987.68 |