Decalcification at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$127.05
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.
$363.00
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.
$13.15 with BCBS-TX vs $363.00 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 |
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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $13.15 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $14.04 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $14.04 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.04 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $14.04 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $17.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $20.56 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $22.68 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $29.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $31.00 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $39.46 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $46.22 | ↓ -64% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $98.01 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $127.05 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $131.34 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $170.61 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $199.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $199.65 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $199.65 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $214.17 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $217.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $235.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $235.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $235.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $246.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $254.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $254.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $254.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $272.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $299.92 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $308.55 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $363.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Decalcification at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $127.05 | $10.81 – $363.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $273.00 | $8.72 – $94.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $8.72 – $94.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $8.72 – $94.46 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $127.58 | $34.69 – $34.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $88.31 | $10.00 – $125.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $94.87 | $12.00 – $142.31 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $91.04 | $12.00 – $113.81 |