Plcmt sft tiss loc pq w/img 1st lsn at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,172.50
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.
$3,350.00
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.
$507.41 with Renaissance vs $7,221.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $507.41 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $512.41 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $561.21 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $704.73 | ↓ -40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $704.73 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↓ -40% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $704.73 | ↓ -40% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $704.73 | ↓ -40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $711.78 | ↓ -39% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $718.82 | ↓ -39% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $718.82 | ↓ -39% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $725.87 | ↓ -38% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $739.97 | ↓ -37% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $754.06 | ↓ -36% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $754.06 | ↓ -36% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $845.68 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $904.50 | ↓ -23% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $951.39 | ↓ -19% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $986.62 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,018.72 | ↓ -13% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,040.66 | ↓ -11% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,057.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $1,057.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,057.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,057.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,057.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,085.28 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,212.03 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,244.42 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,342.02 | ↑ +14% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,373.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +24% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,507.50 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,574.50 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,842.50 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,842.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,842.50 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,010.00 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,177.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,177.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,177.50 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,290.37 | ↑ +95% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,345.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,345.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,345.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,345.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,512.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,546.00 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,609.00 | ↑ +123% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,767.77 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,847.50 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,875.00 | ↑ +145% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,350.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7,221.00 | ↑ +516% |
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Plcmt sft tiss loc pq w/img 1st lsn at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,172.50 | $904.50 – $3,350.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,250.52 – $1,250.52 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $714.92 – $1,061.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,061.42 – $1,061.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,260.47 | $357.13 – $1,742.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,331.53 | $71.00 – $3,421.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,328.97 | $71.00 – $3,421.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,260.47 | $336.12 – $1,742.94 |