X-ray thoracolumbar spine including skull cervical & sacral spine 2-3 views at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$1,065.40
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.
$3,044.00
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.
$70.50 with Wellpoint vs $3,044.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $70.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $70.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $70.50 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $71.91 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $71.91 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $71.91 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $74.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $76.69 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $81.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $94.47 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $96.58 | ↓ -91% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $106.51 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $106.51 | ↓ -90% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $106.51 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -90% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -90% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $107.58 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $108.57 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -90% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -90% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $111.84 | ↓ -90% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -89% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -89% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $127.81 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $134.50 | ↓ -87% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $143.79 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $144.58 | ↓ -86% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $149.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $159.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $164.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $173.78 | ↓ -84% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $191.39 | ↓ -82% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $219.96 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $219.96 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $234.85 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $300.37 | ↓ -72% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $334.84 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $334.84 | ↓ -69% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $346.16 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $354.17 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $392.28 | ↓ -63% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $448.69 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $582.00 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $782.00 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $821.88 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $869.00 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $869.00 | ↓ -18% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,101.32 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,248.04 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $1,369.80 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,430.68 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $1,522.00 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,674.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,674.20 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,674.20 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,826.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $1,856.84 | ↑ +74% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,978.60 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,978.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,978.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,130.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,130.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,130.80 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,130.80 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,283.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,514.96 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,587.40 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,044.00 | ↑ +186% |
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X-ray thoracolumbar spine including skull cervical & sacral spine 2-3 views at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,065.40 | $70.50 – $3,044.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $1,850.26 | $70.50 – $328.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $70.50 – $328.37 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $464.96 | $70.50 – $581.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $242.35 | $49.88 – $363.52 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $453.73 | $70.50 – $567.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $464.96 | $70.50 – $581.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $242.35 | $75.44 – $363.52 |