Plcmnt ureteral stent pq w/img new w/cath at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$5,165.30
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.
$14,758.00
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.
$1,369.00 with Aetna vs $20,636.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,369.00 | ↓ -73% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,570.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,570.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,570.99 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,570.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,570.99 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,602.41 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,602.41 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,602.41 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,648.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,649.54 | ↓ -68% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,806.64 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $2,105.13 | ↓ -59% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $2,105.13 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $2,152.26 | ↓ -58% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↓ -53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $2,419.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,487.28 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2,535.57 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,777.06 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,128.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,454.56 | ↓ -33% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,454.56 | ↓ -33% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,454.56 | ↓ -33% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,454.56 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,454.56 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,454.56 | ↓ -33% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,489.11 | ↓ -32% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,523.65 | ↓ -32% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,523.65 | ↓ -32% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,558.20 | ↓ -31% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,627.29 | ↓ -30% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,696.38 | ↓ -28% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,696.38 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3,984.66 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $4,145.47 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,211.00 | ↓ -18% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,663.66 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,680.00 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,680.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,836.38 | ↓ -6% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,901.49 | ↓ -5% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,901.49 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $5,040.96 | ↓ -2% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,141.58 | ↓ -0% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5,181.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,181.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,181.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $5,181.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $5,181.84 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $5,320.02 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $5,339.45 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $6,050.78 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $6,157.82 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $6,640.79 | ↑ +29% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $6,641.10 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $6,936.26 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $7,379.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +44% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $8,116.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $8,116.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $8,116.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +59% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $8,854.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,592.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $9,592.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $9,592.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $10,330.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $10,330.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $10,330.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $10,330.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11,068.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $11,216.08 | ↑ +117% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $11,227.32 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12,193.06 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $12,544.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $14,758.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +300% |
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Plcmnt ureteral stent pq w/img new w/cath at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $5,165.30 | $3,984.66 – $14,758.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,602.41 – $6,188.01 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,463.47 – $5,252.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,493.34 – $5,252.26 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $6,048.00 | $1,493.34 – $8,636.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $6,804.00 | $71.00 – $10,206.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,882.47 | $71.00 – $8,649.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $6,048.00 | $1,493.34 – $10,795.00 |