Ultrasound spinal canal and contents at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$212.80
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.
$608.00
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.
$66.88 with TCHP vs $618.00 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|All Other Plans | $66.88 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $66.88 | ↓ -69% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $76.69 | ↓ -64% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $89.62 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $104.75 | ↓ -51% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $106.51 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $106.51 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -50% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $106.51 | ↓ -50% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.84 | ↓ -50% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $106.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $106.88 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.88 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $107.58 | ↓ -49% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -49% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -49% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $109.02 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $109.99 | ↓ -48% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $111.84 | ↓ -47% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -46% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -46% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $122.91 | ↓ -42% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $127.81 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $134.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $143.22 | ↓ -33% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $143.79 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $144.58 | ↓ -32% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $146.43 | ↓ -31% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $149.11 | ↓ -30% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -25% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -25% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $159.76 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $164.03 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $164.16 | ↓ -23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $164.60 | ↓ -23% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -14% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $219.98 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $249.28 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $249.31 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $273.60 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $277.09 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $285.76 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $300.37 | ↑ +41% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $304.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $305.17 | ↑ +43% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $333.47 | ↑ +57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $333.47 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $334.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $334.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $334.40 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $346.16 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $354.17 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $364.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $370.88 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $374.44 | ↑ +76% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $392.28 | ↑ +84% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $395.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $395.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $395.20 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $414.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $425.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $425.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $425.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $425.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $456.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $502.33 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $516.80 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $559.00 | ↑ +163% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $608.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $618.00 | ↑ +190% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $618.00 | ↑ +190% |
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Ultrasound spinal canal and contents at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $212.80 | $48.64 – $608.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $106.88 – $523.57 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $104.75 – $523.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $450.60 | $99.77 – $563.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $529.99 | $109.09 – $794.98 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $491.43 | $99.77 – $614.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $450.60 | $99.77 – $563.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $529.99 | $99.77 – $794.98 |