Tomosynthesis breast screen bilateral at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$64.75
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.
$185.00
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.
$20.35 with TCHP vs $215.00 with United — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $20.35 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $20.35 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $27.27 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $30.28 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $32.55 | ↓ -50% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $49.95 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $52.79 | ↓ -18% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $52.79 | ↓ -18% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $52.79 | ↓ -18% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $53.85 | ↓ -17% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $53.85 | ↓ -17% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.85 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $55.43 | ↓ -14% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $60.71 | ↓ -6% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $66.94 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $67.62 | ↑ +4% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $70.74 | ↑ +9% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $72.32 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $73.79 | ↑ +14% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $75.85 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $79.73 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $81.27 | ↑ +26% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $81.30 | ↑ +26% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $83.25 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $86.95 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $88.31 | ↑ +36% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $92.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $99.71 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $101.75 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $101.75 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $101.75 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $111.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $112.85 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $120.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $120.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $120.25 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $129.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $129.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $129.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $129.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $138.75 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $144.00 | ↑ +122% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $152.85 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $157.25 | ↑ +143% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $164.70 | ↑ +154% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $164.70 | ↑ +154% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $185.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $196.00 | ↑ +203% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $215.00 | ↑ +232% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $215.00 | ↑ +232% |
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Tomosynthesis breast screen bilateral at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $64.75 | $14.80 – $185.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $22.76 – $139.41 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $22.76 – $55.93 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $318.28 | $97.14 – $97.14 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $95.23 | $50.46 – $134.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $117.47 | $24.18 – $176.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $77.46 | $46.97 – $96.83 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $95.23 | $52.46 – $134.90 |