Potassium chloride 10 meq/100ml in sterile water intravenous piggyback at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$334.03
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.
$954.35
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.
$0.06 with BCBS - TX vs $9.95 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $0.10 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.13 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $0.14 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.18 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.24 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.24 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.24 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.32 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $2.32 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2.74 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3.37 | ↓ -99% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3.47 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3.60 | ↓ -99% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4.08 | ↓ -99% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4.48 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4.68 | ↓ -99% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.88 | ↓ -99% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $5.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $5.15 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5.48 | ↓ -98% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5.48 | ↓ -98% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $5.97 | ↓ -98% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $7.17 | ↓ -98% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $7.36 | ↓ -98% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $7.36 | ↓ -98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7.47 | ↓ -98% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8.23 | ↓ -98% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8.46 | ↓ -97% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9.95 | ↓ -97% |
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Potassium chloride 10 meq/100ml in sterile water intravenous piggyback at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $334.03 | $0.08 – $9.95 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.14 – $1.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.12 – $1.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.14 – $1.46 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $544.35 | $0.27 – $0.27 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $97.20 | $0.14 – $20.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $97.20 | $0.14 – $21.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $97.20 | $0.14 – $18.05 |