Whole blood for transfusion at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$413.70
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.
$1,182.00
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.
$94.00 with United vs $1,182.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $94.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -76% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $124.83 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $124.83 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $124.83 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $124.83 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $127.33 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $128.00 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $141.00 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $141.00 | ↓ -66% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $143.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $162.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $167.27 | ↓ -60% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $167.27 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $171.02 | ↓ -59% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $192.24 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $225.48 | ↓ -45% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $225.48 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $225.48 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $225.48 | ↓ -45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $225.48 | ↓ -45% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $225.48 | ↓ -45% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $227.73 | ↓ -45% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $229.99 | ↓ -44% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $229.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $232.24 | ↓ -44% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $236.75 | ↓ -43% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $241.26 | ↓ -42% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $241.26 | ↓ -42% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $250.80 | ↓ -39% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $270.58 | ↓ -35% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $304.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $315.67 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $319.14 | ↓ -23% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $338.22 | ↓ -18% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $338.22 | ↓ -18% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $338.22 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $338.22 | ↓ -18% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $338.22 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $347.24 | ↓ -16% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $389.47 | ↓ -6% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $389.47 | ↓ -6% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $427.65 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $484.62 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $531.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $555.54 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $591.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $650.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $650.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $650.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $709.20 | ↑ +71% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $732.81 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $768.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $768.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $768.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $827.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $827.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $827.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $886.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $976.57 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,004.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,182.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Whole blood for transfusion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $665.64 | $124.83 – $1,528.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $413.70 | $88.00 – $1,182.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $124.83 – $1,528.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $124.83 – $1,528.40 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $487.92 | $138.24 – $609.90 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $485.68 | $99.97 – $728.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $509.96 | $101.99 – $637.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $487.92 | $130.11 – $609.90 |