Apheresis plasma at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$3,293.15
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.
$9,409.00
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.
$564.62 with Wellpoint vs $9,409.00 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|All Other Plans | $564.62 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $564.62 | ↓ -83% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $564.62 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $564.62 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $564.62 | ↓ -83% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $575.91 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $575.91 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $575.91 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $592.85 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $649.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $756.59 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $756.59 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $773.53 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $869.51 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $992.72 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $1,182.20 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,270.68 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,298.00 | ↓ -61% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,361.70 | ↓ -59% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $1,641.94 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -50% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -50% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,641.94 | ↓ -50% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $1,641.94 | ↓ -50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $1,658.36 | ↓ -50% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,674.78 | ↓ -49% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $1,674.78 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $1,691.20 | ↓ -49% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,756.88 | ↓ -47% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,756.88 | ↓ -47% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,761.61 | ↓ -47% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,761.61 | ↓ -47% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,806.13 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,919.25 | ↓ -42% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $2,216.62 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,276.63 | ↓ -31% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,280.98 | ↓ -31% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $2,298.72 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,303.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,462.91 | ↓ -25% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,462.91 | ↓ -25% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,462.91 | ↓ -25% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,462.91 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $2,528.59 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,540.43 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,541.35 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $3,293.15 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↑ +0% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,400.00 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $3,404.18 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $4,422.23 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,174.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $5,174.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $5,174.95 | ↑ +57% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $5,336.31 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,645.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $5,645.40 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $6,115.85 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $6,115.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,115.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,115.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $6,115.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,398.12 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $6,586.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $6,586.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,586.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,056.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,150.84 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7,773.72 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $7,997.65 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +178% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $9,409.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Apheresis plasma at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $3,293.15 | $2,540.43 – $9,409.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $605.86 – $2,713.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $553.33 – $2,303.10 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $564.62 – $2,303.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,546.01 | $564.62 – $4,432.51 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,907.45 | $604.14 – $5,861.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,110.11 | $564.62 – $3,887.63 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,546.01 | $564.62 – $4,432.51 |