Application of paste boot 29580 at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$223.30
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.
$638.00
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.
$31.67 with BCBS-TX vs $4,000.00 with Humana — 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|Exchange | $31.67 | ↓ -86% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $35.16 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $35.16 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $35.16 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $35.16 | ↓ -84% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $35.16 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $35.86 | ↓ -84% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $35.86 | ↓ -84% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $35.86 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.92 | ↓ -83% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $40.43 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $40.53 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $47.11 | ↓ -79% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $47.11 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $48.17 | ↓ -78% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $54.15 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $61.22 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $72.62 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $81.06 | ↓ -64% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $109.70 | ↓ -51% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $109.70 | ↓ -51% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $113.80 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $158.05 | ↓ -29% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $159.63 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $161.21 | ↓ -28% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $161.21 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $162.79 | ↓ -27% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↓ -24% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $169.11 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $172.26 | ↓ -23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $173.85 | ↓ -22% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $213.37 | ↓ -4% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $221.27 | ↓ -1% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $223.30 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $230.83 | ↑ +3% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $236.26 | ↑ +6% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $237.07 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $243.40 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $299.86 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $350.90 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $350.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $350.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $382.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $382.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +73% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $414.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $446.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $446.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $446.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $478.50 | ↑ +114% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $513.66 | ↑ +130% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $527.12 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $542.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $638.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +651% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +977% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1008% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1131% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1131% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +1691% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +1691% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $223.30 | $172.26 – $638.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $36.43 – $304.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $32.46 – $304.83 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $33.12 – $304.83 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,062.85 | $52.78 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $331.74 | $33.12 – $414.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $444.71 | $35.44 – $667.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $421.59 | $33.12 – $526.99 |