Puncture aspiration abscess/hematoma/bulla/cyst at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$172.20
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.
$492.00
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.
$71.36 with TCHP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $71.36 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $71.36 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $71.36 | ↓ -59% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $71.36 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $71.36 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $72.79 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $72.79 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $72.79 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $74.93 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $76.70 | ↓ -55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $82.06 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $90.04 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $95.62 | ↓ -44% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $95.62 | ↓ -44% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $97.76 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $99.79 | ↓ -42% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $109.89 | ↓ -36% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $132.84 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $139.23 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -11% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $178.01 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $179.25 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $190.92 | ↑ +11% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $201.72 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $221.40 | ↑ +29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $222.64 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $222.64 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $231.24 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $246.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $270.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $270.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $270.60 | ↑ +57% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $288.13 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $295.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $295.20 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $319.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $319.80 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $319.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $319.80 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $319.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $344.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $344.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $344.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $344.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $369.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $373.92 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +125% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $400.18 | ↑ +132% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $400.18 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $400.18 | ↑ +132% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $400.18 | ↑ +132% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $400.18 | ↑ +132% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $400.18 | ↑ +132% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $404.18 | ↑ +135% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $406.50 | ↑ +136% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $408.18 | ↑ +137% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $408.18 | ↑ +137% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $412.19 | ↑ +139% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $418.20 | ↑ +143% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $420.19 | ↑ +144% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $428.19 | ↑ +149% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $428.19 | ↑ +149% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $480.22 | ↑ +179% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $492.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $540.24 | ↑ +214% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $560.25 | ↑ +225% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $578.01 | ↑ +236% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $600.27 | ↑ +249% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $600.27 | ↑ +249% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $600.27 | ↑ +249% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $600.27 | ↑ +249% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $600.27 | ↑ +249% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $616.28 | ↑ +258% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +420% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +527% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,300.59 | ↑ +655% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↑ +691% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +743% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +1035% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1161% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1161% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +1468% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +1468% |
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Puncture aspiration abscess/hematoma/bulla/cyst at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $172.20 | $132.84 – $492.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $753.10 | $67.83 – $601.93 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $72.79 – $601.93 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $66.47 – $601.93 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $645.13 | $67.83 – $987.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $581.36 | $71.00 – $987.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $673.86 | $67.83 – $987.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $645.13 | $67.83 – $987.79 |