Unlisted procedure spine at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$107.80
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.
$308.00
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.
$25.50 with UNITED vs $9,158.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.50 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $34.25 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $78.00 | ↓ -28% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $78.00 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $83.16 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $111.44 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $126.28 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $138.60 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $144.76 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $154.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $169.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $169.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $169.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $172.99 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $181.14 | ↑ +68% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $184.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $184.80 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $198.39 | ↑ +84% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $200.20 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $200.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $200.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $200.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $200.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $215.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $215.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $215.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $215.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $231.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $234.08 | ↑ +117% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $240.27 | ↑ +123% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $240.27 | ↑ +123% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $240.27 | ↑ +123% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $240.27 | ↑ +123% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $240.27 | ↑ +123% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $240.27 | ↑ +123% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $242.67 | ↑ +125% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $245.08 | ↑ +127% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $245.08 | ↑ +127% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $247.48 | ↑ +130% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $252.28 | ↑ +134% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $254.47 | ↑ +136% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $257.09 | ↑ +138% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $257.09 | ↑ +138% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $261.80 | ↑ +143% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $288.32 | ↑ +167% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $308.00 | ↑ +186% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $324.36 | ↑ +201% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $336.38 | ↑ +212% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $344.69 | ↑ +220% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $360.12 | ↑ +234% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $360.40 | ↑ +234% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $360.40 | ↑ +234% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $360.40 | ↑ +234% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $360.40 | ↑ +234% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $360.40 | ↑ +234% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $370.02 | ↑ +243% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $439.91 | ↑ +308% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $474.41 | ↑ +340% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $780.88 | ↑ +624% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $896.00 | ↑ +731% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,079.00 | ↑ +901% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,452.00 | ↑ +1247% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,955.00 | ↑ +1714% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1915% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,172.00 | ↑ +1915% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +2131% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $2,517.95 | ↑ +2236% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↑ +2970% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↑ +3282% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,300.00 | ↑ +3889% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,300.00 | ↑ +3889% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +8395% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Unlisted procedure spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $442.06 – $442.06 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $249.03 – $375.21 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $375.21 – $375.21 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $8,245.45 | $235.40 – $3,483.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $9,924.31 | $71.00 – $5,959.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,362.69 | $71.00 – $5,388.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $8,245.45 | $235.40 – $3,483.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $9,924.31 | $85.00 – $5,959.56 |