Covid-19 lab test non-cdc at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$89.25
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.
$255.00
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.
$36.94 with Renaissance vs $255.00 with BCBS-TX — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $36.94 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $43.10 | ↓ -52% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $43.96 | ↓ -51% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $43.96 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.26 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $47.21 | ↓ -47% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $47.21 | ↓ -47% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $47.21 | ↓ -47% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $47.21 | ↓ -47% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $48.15 | ↓ -46% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $51.31 | ↓ -43% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -43% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $51.31 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -43% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -43% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $51.82 | ↓ -42% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $52.34 | ↓ -41% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $52.34 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $52.85 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $54.29 | ↓ -39% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $54.90 | ↓ -38% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $54.90 | ↓ -38% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $56.44 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $63.26 | ↓ -29% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $63.26 | ↓ -29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $64.68 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $68.85 | ↓ -23% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $69.27 | ↓ -22% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $71.83 | ↓ -20% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $72.70 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $74.91 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $76.97 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $79.02 | ↓ -11% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $84.66 | ↓ -5% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $89.25 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $92.26 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $97.49 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $119.85 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $140.25 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $140.25 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $140.25 | ↑ +57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $147.30 | ↑ +65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $147.30 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $153.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $165.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $165.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $165.75 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $166.76 | ↑ +87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $167.27 | ↑ +87% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $178.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $178.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $178.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $191.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $210.69 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $216.75 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $224.74 | ↑ +152% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $255.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $255.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Covid-19 lab test non-cdc at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $81.76 | $47.41 – $74.40 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $89.25 | $36.94 – $255.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $80.00 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $43.10 – $74.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $81.11 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $97.01 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $83.36 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $92.05 | $40.95 – $197.25 |