Radiation treatment aid(s) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,342.50
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.
$9,550.00
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.
$83.04 with BCBS - TX vs $9,550.00 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|MyBlue Health Exchange | $83.04 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $100.34 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $183.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $264.00 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $264.34 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $294.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $366.66 | ↓ -89% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $366.66 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $366.66 | ↓ -89% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $366.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $366.66 | ↓ -89% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $366.66 | ↓ -89% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $370.33 | ↓ -89% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $373.99 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $373.99 | ↓ -89% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $377.66 | ↓ -89% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $384.99 | ↓ -88% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $392.33 | ↓ -88% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $392.33 | ↓ -88% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $439.99 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $489.22 | ↓ -85% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $494.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $513.32 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $549.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $549.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $549.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $549.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $549.99 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $564.66 | ↓ -83% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $566.30 | ↓ -83% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,191.65 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,358.00 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,578.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,674.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,960.50 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,177.00 | ↓ -5% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,455.19 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,527.00 | ↑ +6% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,527.00 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $3,915.50 | ↑ +17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,915.50 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,297.50 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,488.50 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,775.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,252.50 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,252.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,252.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,730.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $5,730.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $5,825.50 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,207.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,207.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,207.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,685.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,685.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,685.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,685.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,162.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,890.21 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8,117.50 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,550.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Radiation treatment aid(s) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $9,625.00 | $126.64 – $1,229.30 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,342.50 | $101.03 – $9,550.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $126.64 – $1,229.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $126.64 – $1,229.30 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,207.28 | $107.95 – $1,509.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,207.24 | $248.49 – $1,810.85 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,075.03 | $215.01 – $1,343.79 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,207.28 | $66.43 – $1,509.10 |