Artery x-rays chest at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$2,628.15
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.
$7,509.00
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.
$140.00 with United vs $10,245.95 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $161.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $161.73 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $164.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $165.40 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $168.71 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $168.71 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $173.67 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $185.99 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $216.72 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $221.57 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $249.06 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $326.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $359.58 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $441.20 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $504.60 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $504.60 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $600.72 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $600.72 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $804.97 | ↓ -69% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $2,027.43 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.87 | ↓ -14% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,628.15 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,716.76 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3,152.60 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +20% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +20% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3,152.60 | ↑ +20% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $3,184.13 | ↑ +21% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +22% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +22% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↑ +24% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +28% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +28% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,467.86 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $3,529.23 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $3,907.50 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $4,046.07 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,129.95 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $4,129.95 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $4,129.95 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $4,256.01 | ↑ +62% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,413.64 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $4,430.31 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,505.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +80% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +80% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +80% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +80% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,787.23 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,855.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,880.85 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,880.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,880.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,106.12 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $5,256.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,256.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,256.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,631.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $6,203.94 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $6,382.65 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $7,094.48 | ↑ +170% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $7,509.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $7,509.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $7,509.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $10,245.95 | ↑ +290% |
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Artery x-rays chest at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $6,800.14 | $161.73 – $4,877.45 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,628.15 | $161.73 – $7,509.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $5,688.13 | $161.73 – $4,877.45 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $161.73 – $4,877.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,498.28 | $514.23 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,943.48 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.33 | $165.40 – $7,896.23 |