Connect omega .5mm at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$1,854.12
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.
$5,297.46
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.
$313.78 with BCBS-TX vs $1,494.15 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $313.78 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $328.72 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $358.60 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $373.54 | ↓ -80% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $388.48 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $388.48 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $403.43 | ↓ -78% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $403.43 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $418.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $433.31 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $433.31 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $448.25 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $448.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $448.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $448.25 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $463.19 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $463.19 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $522.96 | ↓ -72% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $540.59 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $552.84 | ↓ -70% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $612.61 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $627.55 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $627.55 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $702.26 | ↓ -62% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $821.79 | ↓ -56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $821.79 | ↓ -56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $821.79 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $896.49 | ↓ -52% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $896.49 | ↓ -52% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $896.49 | ↓ -52% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $971.20 | ↓ -48% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $971.20 | ↓ -48% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $971.20 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $971.20 | ↓ -48% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $971.20 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,045.91 | ↓ -44% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,045.91 | ↓ -44% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $1,075.79 | ↓ -42% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,120.62 | ↓ -40% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,234.47 | ↓ -33% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,270.03 | ↓ -32% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,494.15 | ↓ -19% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Connect omega .5mm at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,854.12 | $313.78 – $1,494.15 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $361.13 – $792.27 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $361.13 – $792.27 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $361.13 – $792.27 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $2,063.25 | not published |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $3,489.00 | $361.13 – $792.27 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $1,069.43 | $14.78 – $104.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $950.67 | $811.60 – $4,869.59 |