Red blood cells each unit at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$277.20
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.
$792.00
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.
$94.00 with United vs $792.00 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 |
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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $94.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $104.08 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $128.00 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $141.00 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $141.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $144.55 | ↓ -48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $144.55 | ↓ -48% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $144.55 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $144.55 | ↓ -48% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $144.55 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $144.55 | ↓ -48% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $146.00 | ↓ -47% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $147.44 | ↓ -47% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $147.44 | ↓ -47% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $148.89 | ↓ -46% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $151.78 | ↓ -45% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $154.67 | ↓ -44% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $154.67 | ↓ -44% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $173.46 | ↓ -37% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $195.14 | ↓ -30% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $202.37 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $213.84 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $216.82 | ↓ -22% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $216.82 | ↓ -22% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $216.82 | ↓ -22% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $216.82 | ↓ -22% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $216.82 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $222.61 | ↓ -20% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $230.11 | ↓ -17% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $286.55 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $324.72 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $356.40 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $372.24 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $396.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $435.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $435.60 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $435.60 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $469.79 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $475.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $514.80 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $514.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $514.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $554.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $554.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $554.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $594.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $654.36 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $673.20 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $792.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Red blood cells each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $925.94 | $354.66 – $1,390.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,352.00 | $354.66 – $1,390.77 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $277.20 | $88.00 – $792.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $251.64 | $354.66 – $1,390.77 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $414.33 | $117.39 – $517.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $447.32 | $92.07 – $670.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $464.14 | $92.83 – $580.17 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $414.33 | $110.49 – $517.91 |