Training self management diabetes individual outpatient department per 30 minutes at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center

1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$33.25

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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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$95.00

Gross charge

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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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$25.65 with OPTUM vs $526.00 with United — same scan, same building. Share

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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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
OPTUM Medicare|All Plans $25.65 ↓ -23%
OPTUM Medicaid|STAR $34.38 ↑ +3%
Renaissance Commercial|All Plans $38.92 ↑ +17%
TCHPCHIP Medicaid|HMO $38.95 ↑ +17%
BCBS - TX Commercial|Transplant $41.55 ↑ +25%
TCH Commercial|Transplant $42.75 ↑ +29%
United Commercial|Optum $44.65 ↑ +34%
Shell Commercial|All Plans $47.50 ↑ +43%
CHC Medicaid|HMO $52.25 ↑ +57%
CHC Medicaid|CHIP $52.25 ↑ +57%
TEXASTRUECHOICE Medicaid|CHIP $52.25 ↑ +57%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|HMO $54.05 ↑ +63%
Humana Medicare|All Other Plans $54.05 ↑ +63%
Humana Medicare|TRANSPLANT $54.05 ↑ +63%
AETNA Medicare|TRANSPLANT $54.05 ↑ +63%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $54.05 ↑ +63%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $54.05 ↑ +63%
CIGNA HEALTHSPRING Medicare|PPO $54.59 ↑ +64%
UHC-SecureHorizons Medicare|All Plans $55.13 ↑ +66%
AETNA Medicare|All Other Plans $55.13 ↑ +66%
Amerivantage Medicare|All Plans $55.67 ↑ +67%
SELECTCARE Medicare|All Plans $56.75 ↑ +71%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $57.00 ↑ +71%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $57.83 ↑ +74%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $57.83 ↑ +74%
Humana Commercial|Transplant $61.75 ↑ +86%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $61.75 ↑ +86%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $61.75 ↑ +86%
KINDRED Medicare|All Plans $64.86 ↑ +95%
BCBS - TX Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange $66.34 ↑ +100%
Interlink Commercial|Transplant $66.50 ↑ +100%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $66.50 ↑ +100%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $66.50 ↑ +100%
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $67.46 ↑ +103%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $71.25 ↑ +114%
KelseyCare Commercial|Exchange $72.97 ↑ +119%
Employer Direct Commercial|PPO $75.67 ↑ +128%
OPTUM Medicaid|STARPLUS $78.49 ↑ +136%
USA Health Network Commercial|All Plans $80.75 ↑ +143%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $81.08 ↑ +144%
Superior Health Plan Commercial|All Plans $81.08 ↑ +144%
Community Health Choice Commercial|All Other Plans $81.08 ↑ +144%
Harris Health Commercial|ERS $81.08 ↑ +144%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $81.08 ↑ +144%
Aetna Commercial|Exchange $83.24 ↑ +150%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $94.97 ↑ +186%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $95.00 ↑ +186%
MHealth Network Commercial|PPO $95.00 ↑ +186%
BCBS - TX Commercial|PPO Trad $95.00 ↑ +186%
BCBS - TX Commercial|Premier $95.00 ↑ +186%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $95.00 ↑ +186%
BCBS - TX Commercial|HMO $95.00 ↑ +186%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $95.00 ↑ +186%
NX Health Commercial|PPO $175.66 ↑ +428%
United Commercial|Exchange $352.00 ↑ +959%
United Commercial|Charter $475.00 ↑ +1329%
United Commercial|PPO $526.00 ↑ +1482%
United Commercial|HMO $526.00 ↑ +1482%

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Training self management diabetes individual outpatient department per 30 minutes at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital Houston $33.25 $25.65 – $175.66
HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER Houston not published $54.05 – $121.15
HCA HOUSTON WEST HOUSTON not published $55.22 – $121.15
HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL HOUSTON not published $54.05 – $121.15
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Dallas $100.98 $28.61 – $172.60
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM Brenham $104.33 $21.48 – $156.50
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA Suite 110 $122.01 $24.40 – $169.78
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL Frisco $100.98 $26.93 – $143.06

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