Test pathogen(s) for platelets reference at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$75.95
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.
$217.00
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.
$38.25 with United vs $217.00 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|Charter | $38.25 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $38.25 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $38.25 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $38.25 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $42.60 | ↓ -44% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $42.84 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $49.35 | ↓ -35% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $58.59 | ↓ -23% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $59.50 | ↓ -22% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $59.50 | ↓ -22% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $59.50 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -22% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $60.09 | ↓ -21% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -20% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -20% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $61.28 | ↓ -19% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $62.48 | ↓ -18% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -16% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -16% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $71.40 | ↓ -6% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $78.52 | ↑ +3% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $80.33 | ↑ +6% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $83.30 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $85.72 | ↑ +13% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $88.97 | ↑ +17% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $89.25 | ↑ +18% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +18% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $89.25 | ↑ +18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.25 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $91.63 | ↑ +21% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $93.09 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $94.59 | ↑ +25% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $97.65 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $101.99 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $102.60 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $108.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $119.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $119.35 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $119.35 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $129.33 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $130.20 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $136.32 | ↑ +79% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $141.05 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $141.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $141.05 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $141.65 | ↑ +87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $151.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $151.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $151.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $162.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $179.29 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $184.45 | ↑ +143% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $193.38 | ↑ +155% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $217.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Test pathogen(s) for platelets reference at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $225.84 | $33.84 – $242.83 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $75.95 | $38.25 – $217.00 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $29.90 | $8.47 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $56.35 | $11.60 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $56.35 | $11.27 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $29.90 | $7.97 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $56.35 | $12.00 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $56.35 | $8.00 – $151.53 |