Rbc serum pretx incubj drugs at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$170.10
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.
$486.00
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.
$47.70 with United vs $1,298.99 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|PPO | $47.70 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $47.70 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $47.70 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $47.70 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $64.13 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $76.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $83.87 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $114.66 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $130.84 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $131.22 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $151.55 | ↓ -11% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $175.84 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $199.26 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $218.70 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $228.42 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $243.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $267.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $267.30 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $267.30 | ↑ +57% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $287.78 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $291.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $315.10 | ↑ +85% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $315.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $315.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $315.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $340.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $340.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $340.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $364.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +135% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $399.69 | ↑ +135% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +135% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $399.69 | ↑ +135% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $399.69 | ↑ +135% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $399.69 | ↑ +135% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $401.54 | ↑ +136% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $403.69 | ↑ +137% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $407.68 | ↑ +140% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $407.68 | ↑ +140% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $411.68 | ↑ +142% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $413.10 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $418.68 | ↑ +146% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $419.67 | ↑ +147% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +151% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $427.67 | ↑ +151% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $435.03 | ↑ +156% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $453.87 | ↑ +167% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $479.63 | ↑ +182% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $486.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $539.58 | ↑ +217% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $559.57 | ↑ +229% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $599.53 | ↑ +252% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $599.53 | ↑ +252% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $599.53 | ↑ +252% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $599.53 | ↑ +252% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $599.53 | ↑ +252% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $615.52 | ↑ +262% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,298.99 | ↑ +664% |
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Rbc serum pretx incubj drugs at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $170.10 | $47.70 – $486.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $120.02 – $339.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $181.63 | $12.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $181.63 | $12.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $181.63 | $12.00 – $987.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $181.63 | $8.00 – $987.04 |