Placement nephrostomy catheter (both sides) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,479.00
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.
$9,940.00
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.
$686.75 with Wellpoint vs $12,898.00 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|STARKIDS | $686.75 | ↓ -80% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $686.75 | ↓ -80% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $686.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $686.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $686.75 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $700.49 | ↓ -80% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $700.49 | ↓ -80% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $700.49 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $721.09 | ↓ -79% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $789.76 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $920.25 | ↓ -74% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $920.25 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $940.85 | ↓ -73% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,057.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,477.32 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,488.10 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,629.83 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -41% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -41% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $2,051.83 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,051.83 | ↓ -41% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,051.83 | ↓ -41% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $2,072.35 | ↓ -40% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $2,092.87 | ↓ -40% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,092.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $2,113.38 | ↓ -39% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,142.66 | ↓ -38% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,142.66 | ↓ -38% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $2,154.42 | ↓ -38% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↓ -37% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↓ -37% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↓ -31% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,462.20 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,683.80 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -22% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,769.97 | ↓ -20% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,872.56 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,958.49 | ↓ -15% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,994.29 | ↓ -14% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,077.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,077.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $3,077.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $3,159.82 | ↓ -9% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,596.30 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,613.96 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,636.00 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,897.41 | ↑ +12% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4,075.40 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,473.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $4,660.00 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,671.80 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,896.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,970.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $5,135.00 | ↑ +48% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +56% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,467.00 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,467.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,467.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,964.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,461.00 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,461.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,461.00 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $6,668.45 | ↑ +92% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,958.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,958.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,958.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,958.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,455.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,554.40 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8,212.43 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8,449.00 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,940.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12,898.00 | ↑ +271% |
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Placement nephrostomy catheter (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,479.00 | $2,683.80 – $9,940.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $700.49 – $3,631.68 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $639.74 – $3,082.50 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $652.80 – $3,082.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,772.36 | $652.80 – $5,965.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,752.50 | $71.00 – $6,837.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,233.03 | $71.00 – $6,837.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,772.36 | $652.80 – $5,965.45 |