Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$29.36
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.
$83.88
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.
$13.81 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $62.73 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 |
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| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $13.81 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $14.77 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.31 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.31 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $16.31 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $16.67 | ↓ -43% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $16.94 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $20.08 | ↓ -32% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.71 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $21.33 | ↓ -27% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $21.96 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $22.59 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $22.59 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $22.59 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $22.70 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $23.84 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.84 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $28.73 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $29.49 | ↑ +0% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $30.12 | ↑ +3% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $30.12 | ↑ +3% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.74 | ↑ +5% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $34.51 | ↑ +18% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $34.51 | ↑ +18% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $34.51 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $36.04 | ↑ +23% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $37.64 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $37.64 | ↑ +28% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $40.78 | ↑ +39% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $40.78 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $40.78 | ↑ +39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $43.92 | ↑ +50% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $43.92 | ↑ +50% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $43.92 | ↑ +50% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $43.92 | ↑ +50% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $43.92 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $44.04 | ↑ +50% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $45.17 | ↑ +54% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $47.05 | ↑ +60% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $51.83 | ↑ +77% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $53.33 | ↑ +82% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $62.73 | ↑ +114% |
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Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $195.36 | $16.20 – $130.91 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $29.36 | $12.20 – $62.73 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $93.88 | $16.20 – $130.91 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $36.14 | $52.17 – $52.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $567.00 | $16.20 – $130.91 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $126.50 | $50.68 – $73.23 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $131.63 | $17.23 – $130.91 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $28.53 | $16.74 – $146.70 |