Pr incision & drainage abscess simple/single at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$118.65
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.
$339.00
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.
$68.44 with Wellpoint vs $2,700.00 with Humana — 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|All Other Plans | $68.44 | ↓ -42% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $68.44 | ↓ -42% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $68.44 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $68.44 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $68.44 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $69.40 | ↓ -42% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $69.81 | ↓ -41% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $69.81 | ↓ -41% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $69.81 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $71.86 | ↓ -39% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $78.71 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $81.46 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $88.99 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $91.53 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $91.71 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $91.71 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $93.76 | ↓ -21% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $105.40 | ↓ -11% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $122.66 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $125.97 | ↑ +6% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $138.99 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↑ +18% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $143.29 | ↑ +21% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $152.55 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $159.33 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $162.17 | ↑ +37% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $169.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $172.73 | ↑ +46% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $186.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $186.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $186.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $199.02 | ↑ +68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $199.02 | ↑ +68% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $199.02 | ↑ +68% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $199.02 | ↑ +68% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $199.02 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $199.02 | ↑ +68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $201.01 | ↑ +69% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $203.00 | ↑ +71% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $203.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $203.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $203.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $204.99 | ↑ +73% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $208.97 | ↑ +76% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $212.95 | ↑ +79% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $212.95 | ↑ +79% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $213.53 | ↑ +80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $213.53 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $220.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $220.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $220.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $220.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $220.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $237.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $237.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $237.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $237.30 | ↑ +100% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $238.82 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $254.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $257.64 | ↑ +117% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $268.68 | ↑ +126% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $278.63 | ↑ +135% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $280.09 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $288.15 | ↑ +143% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $298.53 | ↑ +152% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $298.53 | ↑ +152% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $298.53 | ↑ +152% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $298.53 | ↑ +152% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $298.53 | ↑ +152% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $300.30 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $306.49 | ↑ +158% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $339.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +226% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $646.82 | ↑ +445% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +655% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +809% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↑ +1048% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +1124% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +1548% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1731% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1731% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +2176% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +2176% |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $118.65 | $91.53 – $339.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $69.81 – $544.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $63.76 – $544.60 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $65.06 – $544.60 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $877.34 | $94.29 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $596.67 | $65.06 – $745.84 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $552.75 | $69.61 – $829.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $807.74 | $65.06 – $1,009.67 |