Creatine - sendout at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$37.10
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.
$106.00
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.
$3.34 with Renaissance vs $106.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $3.34 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.90 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.90 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.90 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.98 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.09 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.49 | ↓ -88% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $4.64 | ↓ -87% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -87% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -87% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $4.64 | ↓ -87% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -87% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $4.69 | ↓ -87% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $4.73 | ↓ -87% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $4.78 | ↓ -87% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $4.96 | ↓ -87% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.96 | ↓ -87% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $5.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $5.23 | ↓ -86% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $5.23 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $5.34 | ↓ -86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $6.01 | ↓ -84% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $6.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $6.50 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $6.77 | ↓ -82% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $6.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $6.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $6.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $7.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.66 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.58 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.58 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.58 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.58 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $8.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $10.74 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $11.85 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.17 | ↓ -67% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $12.17 | ↓ -67% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $15.08 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $15.13 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.20 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $20.32 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $23.80 | ↓ -36% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $28.62 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $37.10 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $38.36 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $49.82 | ↑ +34% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $58.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $58.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $58.30 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $63.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $68.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $68.90 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $72.08 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $74.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $74.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $74.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $79.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $87.58 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $90.10 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $106.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $37.10 | $3.34 – $106.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $3.90 – $19.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3.82 – $19.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3.90 – $19.53 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $90.60 | $3.90 – $82.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $90.60 | $6.81 – $88.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $90.60 | $3.90 – $68.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $90.60 | $3.90 – $82.62 |