Zoledronic acid 4 mg/5 ml intravenous solution at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$93.30
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.
$266.56
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.
$6.08 with BCBS - TX vs $78.42 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 |
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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $6.08 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $7.63 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $9.59 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $9.80 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $12.49 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $13.44 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $13.44 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $13.44 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $13.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $17.26 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $19.09 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $20.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $20.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $20.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $20.39 | ↓ -78% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $21.18 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $25.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.88 | ↓ -72% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $28.38 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $32.16 | ↓ -66% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $35.29 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $36.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $38.43 | ↓ -59% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.43 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $38.43 | ↓ -59% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $39.21 | ↓ -58% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $43.14 | ↓ -54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $43.14 | ↓ -54% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $43.14 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $47.06 | ↓ -50% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $47.06 | ↓ -50% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $50.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $50.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $50.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $54.90 | ↓ -41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $54.90 | ↓ -41% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $54.90 | ↓ -41% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $54.90 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $54.90 | ↓ -41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $56.47 | ↓ -39% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $58.82 | ↓ -37% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $64.80 | ↓ -31% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $66.66 | ↓ -29% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $78.42 | ↓ -16% |
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Zoledronic acid 4 mg/5 ml intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $24.00 | $5.08 – $121.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $93.30 | $7.36 – $78.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $8.38 – $121.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $8.38 – $121.26 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $606.83 | $25.99 – $25.99 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,356.38 | $8.49 – $242.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,356.38 | $8.49 – $256.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,356.38 | $8.49 – $213.75 |