Transfusion blood/blood component(s) at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$726.60
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.
$2,076.00
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.
$32.21 with BCBS - TX vs $5,160.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $32.21 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $32.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $32.33 | ↓ -96% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $32.33 | ↓ -96% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $32.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $32.33 | ↓ -96% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $32.98 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $32.98 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $32.98 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.95 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $37.18 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $37.81 | ↓ -95% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $43.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $43.32 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $44.29 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $49.79 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $58.47 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $59.33 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $75.27 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $80.17 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $100.87 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $100.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $315.28 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $437.89 | ↓ -40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $437.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $437.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $437.89 | ↓ -40% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $437.89 | ↓ -40% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $437.89 | ↓ -40% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $442.27 | ↓ -39% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $446.65 | ↓ -39% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $446.65 | ↓ -39% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $451.03 | ↓ -38% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $459.78 | ↓ -37% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $468.54 | ↓ -36% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $468.54 | ↓ -36% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $525.47 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $560.52 | ↓ -23% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $591.15 | ↓ -19% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $613.05 | ↓ -16% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $656.84 | ↓ -10% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $656.84 | ↓ -10% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $656.84 | ↓ -10% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $656.84 | ↓ -10% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $656.84 | ↓ -10% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $663.76 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $674.35 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $751.10 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $851.16 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +23% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $934.20 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $975.72 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,038.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +48% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,141.80 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,141.80 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,141.80 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,245.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,245.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,349.40 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $1,349.40 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,349.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,349.40 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,349.40 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,423.14 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,453.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,453.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,453.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,453.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,557.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,577.76 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,715.20 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,764.60 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +157% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +169% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +183% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,076.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +199% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +199% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +231% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +272% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,700.00 | ↑ +272% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +610% |
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Transfusion blood/blood component(s) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $726.60 | $560.52 – $2,076.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $32.98 – $252.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $30.12 – $445.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $30.73 – $252.77 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,775.85 | $43.76 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,098.91 | $30.73 – $1,373.64 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,085.62 | $32.88 – $1,628.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,098.56 | $30.73 – $1,373.20 |