Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$122.85
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.
$351.00
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.
$12.95 with Renaissance vs $351.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.10 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.10 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.10 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.10 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.10 | ↓ -88% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $15.40 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.40 | ↓ -87% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $15.40 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.86 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $17.36 | ↓ -86% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $17.98 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $17.98 | ↓ -85% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $17.98 | ↓ -85% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $17.98 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $17.98 | ↓ -85% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $18.16 | ↓ -85% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $18.34 | ↓ -85% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $18.34 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $18.52 | ↓ -85% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $18.88 | ↓ -85% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $19.24 | ↓ -84% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $19.24 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $20.23 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $20.23 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $20.69 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $21.58 | ↓ -82% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $21.58 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $23.25 | ↓ -81% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $24.27 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $24.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $25.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $26.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $26.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $26.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $26.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $27.69 | ↓ -77% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $29.67 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $33.29 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $33.29 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $33.29 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $33.29 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $42.97 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $47.11 | ↓ -62% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $47.11 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $47.41 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $51.96 | ↓ -58% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $58.44 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $64.81 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $66.91 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $69.04 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $71.74 | ↓ -42% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $94.77 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $127.00 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $143.91 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $157.95 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $164.97 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $175.50 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $193.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $193.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $193.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $210.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $214.11 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $228.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $228.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $228.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $245.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $245.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $245.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $245.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $263.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $290.00 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $298.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $351.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $34.29 | $15.10 – $73.87 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $122.85 | $12.95 – $351.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $193.07 | $15.10 – $73.87 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $175.85 | $16.18 – $69.22 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $91.11 | $10.00 – $113.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $105.66 | $12.00 – $158.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $91.84 | $12.00 – $114.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $91.11 | $10.00 – $113.89 |