Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$5,107.76
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.
$14,593.60
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.
$1,457.10 with BCBS - TX vs $7,596.44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,457.10 | ↓ -71% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,524.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,671.22 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $1,829.47 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,975.08 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,975.08 | ↓ -61% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.04 | ↓ -60% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,082.08 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $2,082.08 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,082.08 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,082.08 | ↓ -59% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.08 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.08 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $2,102.90 | ↓ -59% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,123.72 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $2,123.72 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,127.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $2,144.54 | ↓ -58% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $2,186.18 | ↓ -57% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,264.83 | ↓ -56% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2,264.83 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $2,298.98 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,430.87 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,506.83 | ↓ -51% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,506.83 | ↓ -51% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,539.99 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,734.72 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,734.72 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,734.72 | ↓ -46% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,748.40 | ↓ -46% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,810.81 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,886.65 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,886.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,963.32 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,995.15 | ↓ -41% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,114.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $3,123.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,123.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,123.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $3,123.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $3,123.12 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $3,238.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $3,259.66 | ↓ -36% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $3,418.40 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,570.33 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $3,722.26 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $3,722.26 | ↓ -27% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,722.26 | ↓ -27% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $3,798.22 | ↓ -26% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,178.05 | ↓ -18% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,178.05 | ↓ -18% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,178.05 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,557.87 | ↓ -11% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $4,557.87 | ↓ -11% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,937.69 | ↓ -3% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,937.69 | ↓ -3% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,937.69 | ↓ -3% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $5,317.51 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,317.51 | ↑ +4% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $5,317.51 | ↑ +4% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,317.51 | ↑ +4% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,317.51 | ↑ +4% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $5,469.44 | ↑ +7% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,697.33 | ↑ +12% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,276.18 | ↑ +23% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $6,456.98 | ↑ +26% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $6,879.15 | ↑ +35% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $7,596.44 | ↑ +49% |
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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $5,107.76 | $1,671.22 – $7,596.44 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $2,078.71 – $15,822.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $2,125.64 – $15,822.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,078.71 – $15,822.14 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $9,577.76 | $2,078.71 – $15,822.14 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $13,333.89 | $6,055.06 – $7,680.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $15,679.53 | $2,125.64 – $15,822.14 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $321.51 | $234.06 – $1,837.16 |