Plmt nephroureteral catheter at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,131.80
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.
$8,948.00
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.
$1,195.00 with Aetna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -62% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,202.33 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,202.33 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,202.33 | ↓ -62% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,202.33 | ↓ -62% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,202.33 | ↓ -62% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $1,226.38 | ↓ -61% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,226.38 | ↓ -61% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,226.38 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,262.45 | ↓ -60% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $1,382.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,611.12 | ↓ -49% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,611.12 | ↓ -49% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,647.19 | ↓ -47% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,851.59 | ↓ -41% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,415.96 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,487.28 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2,535.57 | ↓ -19% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,777.06 | ↓ -11% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,237.39 | ↑ +3% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,454.56 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,454.56 | ↑ +10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,454.56 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,454.56 | ↑ +10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,454.56 | ↑ +10% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,454.56 | ↑ +10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,489.11 | ↑ +11% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,523.65 | ↑ +13% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,523.65 | ↑ +13% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,558.20 | ↑ +14% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,627.29 | ↑ +16% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,636.00 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,668.68 | ↑ +17% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,696.38 | ↑ +18% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,696.38 | ↑ +18% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,751.27 | ↑ +20% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,751.27 | ↑ +20% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,026.60 | ↑ +29% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $4,145.47 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,205.56 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,474.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $4,660.00 | ↑ +49% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,663.66 | ↑ +49% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,836.38 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,896.00 | ↑ +56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,921.40 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,921.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,921.40 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $5,040.96 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $5,135.00 | ↑ +64% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,141.58 | ↑ +64% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $5,181.84 | ↑ +65% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,181.84 | ↑ +65% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $5,181.84 | ↑ +65% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5,181.84 | ↑ +65% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,181.84 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $5,320.02 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,368.80 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5,439.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $5,816.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,816.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,816.20 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $6,157.82 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,263.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,263.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,263.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,263.60 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $6,640.79 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,711.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,800.48 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,392.84 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $7,605.80 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $8,948.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $11,227.32 | ↑ +258% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12,898.00 | ↑ +312% |
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Plmt nephroureteral catheter at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $15,215.00 | $1,120.04 – $5,252.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,131.80 | $2,415.96 – $8,948.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,226.38 – $6,188.01 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,142.90 – $5,252.26 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,820.82 | $1,142.90 – $8,636.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,422.08 | $71.00 – $8,636.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,158.05 | $71.00 – $8,636.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,820.82 | $1,142.90 – $8,636.11 |