Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$142.90
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$408.27
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$42.54 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $193.35 with BCBS-TX — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $42.54 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $50.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $50.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $50.28 | ↓ -65% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $52.21 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $53.08 | ↓ -63% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $53.08 | ↓ -63% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $53.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $53.08 | ↓ -63% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $54.14 | ↓ -62% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $61.04 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $61.88 | ↓ -57% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $63.81 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $65.74 | ↓ -54% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $67.68 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $67.81 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $69.61 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $69.61 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $69.61 | ↓ -51% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $69.96 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $71.13 | ↓ -50% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $71.13 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $72.72 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $73.48 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $73.48 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $76.52 | ↓ -46% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $81.74 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $90.88 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $92.81 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $92.81 | ↓ -35% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $94.75 | ↓ -34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.35 | ↓ -26% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $106.35 | ↓ -26% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $106.35 | ↓ -26% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $116.01 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $116.01 | ↓ -19% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $125.68 | ↓ -12% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $125.68 | ↓ -12% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $125.68 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $131.89 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $135.35 | ↓ -5% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $135.35 | ↓ -5% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $135.35 | ↓ -5% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $135.35 | ↓ -5% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $135.35 | ↓ -5% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $139.22 | ↓ -3% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $145.02 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $159.75 | ↑ +12% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $164.35 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $165.48 | ↑ +16% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $165.61 | ↑ +16% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $165.61 | ↑ +16% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $193.35 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $193.35 | ↑ +35% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $142.90 | $42.54 – $193.35 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $52.45 – $510.86 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,217.81 | $239.51 – $4,826.69 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $275.26 | $67.81 – $288.23 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $18.20 | $13.25 – $93.59 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $763.44 | $5.46 – $47.77 |