Platelets irradiated ea unit at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$273.35
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.
$781.00
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.
$69.63 with Wellpoint vs $781.00 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 |
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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $69.63 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $69.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $69.63 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $69.63 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $71.02 | ↓ -74% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $80.07 | ↓ -71% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $93.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $93.30 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $94.00 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $95.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $97.92 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -63% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $107.23 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $128.00 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $136.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $136.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $136.00 | ↓ -50% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $136.00 | ↓ -50% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $136.00 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $136.00 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $137.36 | ↓ -50% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $138.72 | ↓ -49% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $138.72 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $140.08 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $141.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $141.00 | ↓ -48% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $142.80 | ↓ -48% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $145.52 | ↓ -47% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $145.52 | ↓ -47% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $163.20 | ↓ -40% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $183.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $190.40 | ↓ -30% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $204.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $204.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $204.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $204.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $204.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $209.44 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $210.87 | ↓ -23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $217.25 | ↓ -21% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $217.25 | ↓ -21% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $236.91 | ↓ -13% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $282.57 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $320.21 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $351.45 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $367.07 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $390.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $429.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $429.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $429.55 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $442.00 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $468.60 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $507.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $507.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $507.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $546.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $546.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $546.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $585.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $645.27 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $663.85 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $781.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Platelets irradiated ea unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $69.63 – $1,744.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $69.63 – $1,744.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $69.63 – $1,744.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $170.80 | $69.63 – $1,744.82 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $273.35 | $69.63 – $781.00 |