Unlisted CT procedure at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$63.70
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.
$182.00
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.
$20.02 with TCHP vs $1,891.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $20.02 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $20.02 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $26.83 | ↓ -58% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $49.14 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $63.50 | ↓ -0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $65.85 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $74.62 | ↑ +17% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $80.90 | ↑ +27% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $80.90 | ↑ +27% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $81.90 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $82.52 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $85.54 | ↑ +34% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $86.58 | ↑ +36% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $88.19 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $88.19 | ↑ +38% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $88.19 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $88.19 | ↑ +38% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $88.31 | ↑ +39% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $88.31 | ↑ +39% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $89.07 | ↑ +40% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $89.95 | ↑ +41% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $89.95 | ↑ +41% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $90.84 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $90.91 | ↑ +43% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $91.00 | ↑ +43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $92.60 | ↑ +45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $93.03 | ↑ +46% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↑ +48% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $94.36 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $95.77 | ↑ +50% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $100.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $100.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $100.10 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $102.95 | ↑ +62% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $105.83 | ↑ +66% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $108.41 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $109.20 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $110.83 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $111.02 | ↑ +74% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $118.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $118.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $118.30 | ↑ +86% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $119.06 | ↑ +87% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $123.47 | ↑ +94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $124.59 | ↑ +96% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $127.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $127.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $127.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $127.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $132.28 | ↑ +108% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $132.28 | ↑ +108% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $132.28 | ↑ +108% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $132.28 | ↑ +108% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $132.28 | ↑ +108% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $135.27 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $135.81 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $136.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $150.37 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $154.70 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $182.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $182.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $182.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $182.00 | ↑ +186% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $252.41 | ↑ +296% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $252.41 | ↑ +296% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $267.78 | ↑ +320% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $286.62 | ↑ +350% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $507.00 | ↑ +696% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $559.00 | ↑ +778% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $590.00 | ↑ +826% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $761.00 | ↑ +1095% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $800.00 | ↑ +1156% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $800.00 | ↑ +1156% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $900.00 | ↑ +1313% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,154.70 | ↑ +1713% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,264.00 | ↑ +1884% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,405.00 | ↑ +2106% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,703.00 | ↑ +2573% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,891.00 | ↑ +2869% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,891.00 | ↑ +2869% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $63.70 | $14.56 – $1,154.70 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $80.90 – $140.47 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $80.90 – $140.47 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $80.90 – $140.47 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,852.68 | $83.05 – $396.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,679.86 | $66.47 – $484.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $4,603.28 | $83.05 – $403.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,852.68 | $83.05 – $396.15 |