Phosphorus at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$161.70
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.
$462.00
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.
$3.41 with Renaissance vs $462.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $3.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.98 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.98 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.98 | ↓ -98% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.06 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.06 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.06 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.18 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $4.74 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $4.74 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $4.74 | ↓ -97% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $4.74 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $4.74 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.74 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $4.79 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.83 | ↓ -97% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $4.83 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $4.88 | ↓ -97% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.98 | ↓ -97% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -97% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $5.33 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $5.33 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $5.45 | ↓ -97% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.69 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $5.69 | ↓ -96% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $6.13 | ↓ -96% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $6.40 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $6.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $6.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $7.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $7.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $7.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $7.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $7.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.82 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.78 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.78 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.78 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $11.58 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.42 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $12.77 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $13.70 | ↓ -92% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $15.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $17.45 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $17.67 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $18.20 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $18.91 | ↓ -88% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $124.74 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $167.16 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $189.42 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $207.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $217.14 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $231.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $254.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $254.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $254.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $277.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $300.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $300.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $300.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $323.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $323.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $323.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $346.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $381.71 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $392.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $462.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Phosphorus at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $161.70 | $3.41 – $462.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3.98 – $19.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3.90 – $19.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3.98 – $19.53 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $89.75 | $4.27 – $18.25 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $62.87 | $3.98 – $78.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $47.81 | $6.94 – $71.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $50.56 | $3.98 – $63.20 |