Tprnl plmt biodegrdabl matrl at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$3,335.50
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.
$9,530.00
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.
$896.00 with Aetna vs $20,636.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,530.63 | ↓ -24% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,530.63 | ↓ -24% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,530.63 | ↓ -24% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,530.63 | ↓ -24% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,530.63 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,573.10 | ↓ -23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $2,581.24 | ↓ -23% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,581.24 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,581.24 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,657.16 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↓ -19% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,910.22 | ↓ -13% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $3,391.04 | ↑ +2% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $3,391.04 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,447.96 | ↑ +3% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3,466.96 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $3,554.56 | ↑ +7% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $3,666.14 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3,893.09 | ↑ +17% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $3,897.17 | ↑ +17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,907.30 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $4,288.50 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,479.10 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $4,765.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4,848.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5,091.86 | ↑ +53% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5,091.86 | ↑ +53% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5,091.86 | ↑ +53% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5,091.86 | ↑ +53% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $5,091.86 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,091.86 | ↑ +53% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5,142.78 | ↑ +54% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5,193.70 | ↑ +56% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $5,193.70 | ↑ +56% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,241.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,241.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,241.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $5,244.62 | ↑ +57% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,346.45 | ↑ +60% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5,448.29 | ↑ +63% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,448.29 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,718.00 | ↑ +71% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $6,110.23 | ↑ +83% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,194.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,194.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,194.50 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $6,527.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,671.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,671.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,671.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,671.00 | ↑ +100% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $6,874.01 | ↑ +106% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $7,066.81 | ↑ +112% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $7,128.60 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,147.50 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,252.00 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7,252.00 | ↑ +117% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,378.07 | ↑ +121% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +124% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $7,637.79 | ↑ +129% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,637.79 | ↑ +129% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $7,637.79 | ↑ +129% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $7,637.79 | ↑ +129% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,637.79 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $7,841.46 | ↑ +135% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,873.69 | ↑ +136% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,895.57 | ↑ +137% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,895.57 | ↑ +137% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $8,100.50 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +146% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,632.50 | ↑ +159% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $9,309.56 | ↑ +179% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,530.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $16,548.54 | ↑ +396% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +519% |
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Tprnl plmt biodegrdabl matrl at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $3,335.50 | $2,573.10 – $9,530.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $2,581.24 – $8,674.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $2,357.43 – $7,363.02 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $2,405.54 – $7,363.02 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,980.69 | $2,405.54 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $5,980.69 | $71.00 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,105.61 | $71.00 – $12,818.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,980.69 | $2,405.54 – $12,818.21 |