X-ray retrograde pyelogram with or without kidney ureter bladder w/supervision & interpretation at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,771.70
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.
$5,062.00
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.
$55.79 with BCBS - TX vs $5,062.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $55.79 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $59.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $77.19 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $77.19 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $78.19 | ↓ -96% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $78.73 | ↓ -96% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $79.75 | ↓ -95% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $79.75 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $82.10 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $88.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $103.43 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $105.75 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $118.87 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $124.59 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $146.91 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $162.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $165.35 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $182.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $223.45 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $240.83 | ↓ -86% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $240.83 | ↓ -86% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $257.55 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $357.71 | ↓ -80% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $357.71 | ↓ -80% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $357.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -80% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $361.29 | ↓ -80% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -79% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $375.60 | ↓ -79% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -78% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -78% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $429.25 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $443.70 | ↓ -75% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $482.91 | ↓ -73% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $500.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $536.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $536.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $536.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $550.87 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $556.82 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $556.82 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $582.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $615.81 | ↓ -65% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $746.14 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $782.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $869.00 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $869.00 | ↓ -51% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,162.56 | ↓ -34% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,366.74 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,831.44 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,075.42 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $2,277.90 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,379.14 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $2,531.00 | ↑ +43% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,784.10 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,784.10 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,784.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,037.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $3,087.82 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,290.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,290.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,290.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,543.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,543.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,543.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,543.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,796.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,182.23 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $4,302.70 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $5,062.00 | ↑ +186% |
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X-ray retrograde pyelogram with or without kidney ureter bladder w/supervision & interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $6,252.00 | $76.63 – $312.44 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,771.70 | $65.55 – $5,062.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $77.19 – $312.44 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $719.37 | $78.19 – $952.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $849.37 | $156.21 – $1,274.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $782.02 | $78.19 – $977.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $719.37 | $78.19 – $952.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $849.37 | $83.66 – $1,274.05 |