Ultrasound transabd ea addl gest at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$261.45
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.
$747.00
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.
$82.17 with TCHP vs $747.00 with MHealth Network — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $82.17 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $82.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -62% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $110.11 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $134.06 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $144.12 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $159.38 | ↓ -39% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $192.13 | ↓ -27% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $192.13 | ↓ -27% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $192.13 | ↓ -27% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $195.97 | ↓ -25% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $195.97 | ↓ -25% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $195.97 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $201.69 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $201.74 | ↓ -23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $220.95 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $257.45 | ↓ -2% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $263.22 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $270.27 | ↑ +3% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $295.88 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $299.41 | ↑ +15% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $306.27 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $336.15 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $351.09 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $353.04 | ↑ +35% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $373.50 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $391.02 | ↑ +50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $410.85 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $410.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $410.85 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $414.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $448.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $455.67 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $485.55 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $485.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $485.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $522.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $522.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $522.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $522.90 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $559.00 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $560.25 | ↑ +114% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $599.45 | ↑ +129% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $599.45 | ↑ +129% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $617.18 | ↑ +136% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $618.00 | ↑ +136% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $618.00 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $634.95 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $747.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Ultrasound transabd ea addl gest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $261.45 | $59.76 – $747.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $192.13 – $646.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $188.29 – $646.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $192.13 – $646.83 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $397.03 | $192.13 – $562.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $437.17 | $89.98 – $655.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $375.38 | $192.13 – $469.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $397.03 | $192.13 – $562.46 |