Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$2,070.25
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.
$5,915.00
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.
$616.67 with BCBS - TX vs $5,915.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $616.67 | ↓ -70% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.29 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,195.00 | ↓ -42% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,370.15 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,438.00 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,500.64 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -25% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -25% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -25% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,555.96 | ↓ -25% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↓ -24% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -23% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,597.05 | ↓ -23% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↓ -23% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,633.76 | ↓ -21% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -20% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↓ -10% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,867.15 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↓ -1% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,100.55 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,140.05 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,178.34 | ↑ +5% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,333.94 | ↑ +13% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,333.94 | ↑ +13% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,333.94 | ↑ +13% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +13% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↑ +13% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,396.18 | ↑ +16% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,425.15 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,661.75 | ↑ +29% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,723.99 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,780.05 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,957.50 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,253.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,253.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,253.25 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,327.51 | ↑ +61% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $3,549.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,549.00 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,588.49 | ↑ +73% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $3,844.75 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $3,844.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,844.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,844.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,844.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,140.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,140.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,140.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,140.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,436.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,495.40 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,886.98 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,027.75 | ↑ +143% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,056.87 | ↑ +144% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +149% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $5,915.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $2,070.25 | $1,597.05 – $5,915.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3,343.82 – $3,343.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,589.23 – $2,838.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,838.17 – $2,838.17 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,754.69 | $2,038.91 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,835.30 | $520.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,584.85 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,653.31 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |