Bone biopsy open superficial at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$1,920.10
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.
$5,486.00
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.
$815.20 with TCHP vs $9,316.74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $815.20 | ↓ -58% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $815.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $815.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $815.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $815.20 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $831.50 | ↓ -57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $831.50 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $831.50 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $855.96 | ↓ -55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $937.48 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.00 | ↓ -44% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $1,092.37 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $1,092.37 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $1,116.82 | ↓ -42% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $1,255.41 | ↓ -35% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $1,285.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,298.00 | ↓ -32% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,481.22 | ↓ -23% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,739.17 | ↓ -9% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,920.10 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,984.84 | ↑ +3% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2,064.02 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2,226.13 | ↑ +16% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +25% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,543.42 | ↑ +32% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,543.42 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,578.42 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,609.00 | ↑ +36% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $2,866.69 | ↑ +49% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $2,866.69 | ↑ +49% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $2,866.69 | ↑ +49% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,866.69 | ↑ +49% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2,866.69 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2,866.69 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,875.00 | ↑ +50% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $2,895.36 | ↑ +51% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,924.02 | ↑ +52% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $2,924.02 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $2,952.69 | ↑ +54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,017.30 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,017.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,017.30 | ↑ +57% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,067.36 | ↑ +60% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,067.36 | ↑ +60% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,137.00 | ↑ +63% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,153.36 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,291.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3,362.39 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,565.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $3,565.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,565.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,730.48 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,840.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,840.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $3,840.20 | ↑ +100% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $3,870.03 | ↑ +102% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,965.11 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,988.49 | ↑ +108% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +108% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +108% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $4,013.37 | ↑ +109% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,114.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,169.36 | ↑ +117% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,300.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,300.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,300.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,300.03 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $4,414.70 | ↑ +130% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $4,452.27 | ↑ +132% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $4,532.54 | ↑ +136% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,631.00 | ↑ +141% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $4,663.10 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5,145.00 | ↑ +168% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,145.00 | ↑ +168% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $5,185.00 | ↑ +170% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $5,185.00 | ↑ +170% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $5,486.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7,221.00 | ↑ +276% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $9,316.74 | ↑ +385% |
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Bone biopsy open superficial at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,920.10 | $1,285.00 – $5,486.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $874.74 – $4,753.72 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $798.90 – $4,034.87 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $815.20 – $4,034.87 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $4,225.20 | $815.20 – $7,039.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,714.89 | $71.00 – $7,039.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,965.54 | $71.00 – $7,039.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $4,225.20 | $815.20 – $7,039.11 |