Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,036.95
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.
$8,677.00
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.
$469.48 with TCHP vs $8,677.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $469.48 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $469.48 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $469.48 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -85% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $469.48 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $478.87 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $478.87 | ↓ -84% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $478.87 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $492.95 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $529.63 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $539.90 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $580.07 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $629.10 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $629.10 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $643.19 | ↓ -79% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $723.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -70% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $958.00 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $1,052.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.29 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $1,279.18 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,286.24 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $1,387.12 | ↓ -54% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,464.78 | ↓ -52% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,464.78 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,494.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,494.00 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,555.96 | ↓ -49% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,571.52 | ↓ -48% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -48% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,587.08 | ↓ -48% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,602.64 | ↓ -47% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,633.76 | ↓ -46% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -45% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,664.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↓ -39% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,867.15 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,984.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↓ -32% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,100.55 | ↓ -31% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,178.34 | ↓ -28% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,333.94 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,342.79 | ↓ -23% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,351.61 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,396.18 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,669.00 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,968.00 | ↓ -2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,139.34 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,557.57 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,904.65 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,078.19 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,338.50 | ↑ +43% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +48% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +48% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,772.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,772.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,772.35 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,056.87 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,206.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,640.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $5,640.05 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,640.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,073.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,507.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,594.52 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,168.94 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $7,375.45 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $8,677.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Removal central venous device tunneled w/port/pump central/peripheral insertion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $5,616.16 | $478.87 – $1,292.55 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $5,430.00 | $437.34 – $1,589.23 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,036.95 | $958.00 – $8,677.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $446.27 – $1,097.09 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,186.53 | $71.00 – $3,967.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,384.86 | $71.00 – $4,231.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,599.13 | $446.27 – $3,967.42 |