Pulse ox single at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$52.50
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.
$150.00
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.
$2.97 with BCBS - TX vs $1,240.20 with KelseyCare — 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|Blue Advantage Exchange | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3.02 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $5.09 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $5.42 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $7.36 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $7.81 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $16.50 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $16.50 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.50 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $16.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.50 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $16.83 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $16.83 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $16.83 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.33 | ↓ -67% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $22.11 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $22.11 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $22.11 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $22.61 | ↓ -57% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $40.50 | ↓ -23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $51.48 | ↓ -2% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $51.48 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $54.27 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $61.50 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $67.50 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $70.50 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $75.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $82.50 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $82.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $82.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $90.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $97.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $97.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $97.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $105.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $105.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $105.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $105.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $112.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $114.00 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $123.93 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $127.50 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $150.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $621.00 | ↑ +1083% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $837.00 | ↑ +1494% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $930.00 | ↑ +1671% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $930.00 | ↑ +1671% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,240.20 | ↑ +2262% |
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Pulse ox single at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $343.74 | $5.90 – $25.81 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $52.50 | $3.68 – $1,240.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $5.90 – $25.81 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $244.08 | $9.70 – $9.70 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $112.05 | $7.74 – $158.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $95.02 | $7.61 – $142.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $101.37 | $7.61 – $126.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $112.05 | $5.90 – $158.74 |