Breast punct aspir cyst, bil at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$646.10
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.
$1,846.00
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.
$58.46 with BCBS-TX vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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 | $58.46 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $59.25 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $59.25 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $59.25 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $59.25 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $59.25 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $60.44 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $60.44 | ↓ -91% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $60.44 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $62.21 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $68.14 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $74.83 | ↓ -88% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $79.39 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $79.39 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $81.17 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $91.25 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $113.03 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $134.07 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $149.66 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $184.86 | ↓ -71% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $184.86 | ↓ -71% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $498.42 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $507.41 | ↓ -21% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $646.10 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $667.89 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +9% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $704.73 | ↑ +9% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +9% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +9% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $704.73 | ↑ +9% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $711.78 | ↑ +10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $718.82 | ↑ +11% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $718.82 | ↑ +11% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $725.87 | ↑ +12% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $754.06 | ↑ +17% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $754.06 | ↑ +17% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $775.20 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $867.62 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +46% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $951.39 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $986.62 | ↑ +53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,015.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,015.30 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,015.30 | ↑ +57% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,040.66 | ↑ +61% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,057.10 | ↑ +64% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,057.10 | ↑ +64% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,057.10 | ↑ +64% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,057.10 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,085.28 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,107.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,107.60 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,199.90 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,199.90 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,199.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,199.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,199.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,255.28 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,292.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,292.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,292.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,384.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,402.96 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,525.17 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,569.10 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +159% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,846.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +189% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +218% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,290.37 | ↑ +254% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +276% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +276% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +283% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +325% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +325% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +699% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $646.10 | $498.42 – $1,846.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $63.58 – $562.80 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $58.06 – $714.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $59.25 – $562.80 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,188.00 | $59.25 – $1,742.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $973.24 | $63.40 – $1,742.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $971.78 | $59.25 – $1,742.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,188.00 | $59.25 – $1,742.94 |