Sodium hyaluronate 20 mg/2 ml syringe at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$269.10
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.
$768.85
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.
$76.18 with BCBS - TX vs $768.85 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $76.18 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $95.64 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $120.19 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $127.80 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $156.58 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $169.15 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $169.28 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $175.27 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $175.27 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $175.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $199.91 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $199.91 | ↓ -26% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $207.59 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $216.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $227.71 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $227.71 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $246.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $253.73 | ↓ -6% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $278.17 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $315.23 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $345.99 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $361.36 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $376.74 | ↑ +40% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $376.74 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $376.74 | ↑ +40% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $384.43 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $422.87 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $422.87 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $422.87 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $461.31 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $461.31 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $499.76 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $499.76 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $499.76 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $538.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $538.20 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $538.20 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $538.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $538.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $553.58 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $576.64 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $635.23 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $653.53 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $768.85 | ↑ +186% |
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Sodium hyaluronate 20 mg/2 ml syringe at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $269.10 | $92.26 – $768.85 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $73.96 – $830.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $72.97 – $830.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $73.96 – $830.82 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,048.07 | $325.86 – $325.86 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $41.65 | $30.33 – $214.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $269.10 | $92.26 – $768.85 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $269.10 | $92.26 – $768.85 |