Place right device/marker pros at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,607.55
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.
$4,593.00
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.
$74.56 with Wellpoint vs $5,160.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $74.56 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $74.56 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $74.56 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $74.56 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $74.56 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $74.70 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $76.05 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $76.05 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $76.05 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $78.29 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $85.74 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $87.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $99.91 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $99.91 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $102.15 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $114.82 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $135.60 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $174.58 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $185.95 | ↓ -88% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $232.63 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $232.63 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -44% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -41% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $986.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,240.11 | ↓ -23% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,370.48 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,370.48 | ↓ -15% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,370.48 | ↓ -15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,370.48 | ↓ -15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,384.18 | ↓ -14% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,397.89 | ↓ -13% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,397.89 | ↓ -13% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,411.59 | ↓ -12% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,439.00 | ↓ -10% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,466.41 | ↓ -9% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,466.41 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,562.58 | ↓ -3% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,644.58 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,661.75 | ↑ +3% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,850.15 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,883.13 | ↑ +17% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,918.67 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,055.72 | ↑ +28% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,055.72 | ↑ +28% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,055.72 | ↑ +28% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,055.72 | ↑ +28% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,055.72 | ↑ +28% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,066.85 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,110.54 | ↑ +31% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,111.74 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,158.71 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,296.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,526.15 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,526.15 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,526.15 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↑ +66% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,755.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $2,755.80 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↑ +85% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $2,985.45 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,985.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,985.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,985.45 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $2,985.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,215.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,215.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,215.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,215.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,444.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,490.68 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,794.74 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,904.05 | ↑ +143% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $4,454.06 | ↑ +177% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,593.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +221% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,607.55 | $1,240.11 – $4,593.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $76.05 – $586.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $69.45 – $1,397.39 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $70.87 – $586.26 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,926.58 | $70.87 – $3,658.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,195.93 | $71.00 – $3,432.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,830.59 | $70.87 – $3,538.24 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,926.58 | $70.87 – $3,658.22 |