Diagnostic laryngoscopy 31505 at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$113.05
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.
$323.00
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.
$48.18 with BCBS-TX vs $2,749.00 with United — 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 | $48.18 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $56.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $56.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $56.20 | ↓ -50% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $56.20 | ↓ -50% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $56.20 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $57.32 | ↓ -49% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $57.32 | ↓ -49% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $57.32 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $59.01 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $61.67 | ↓ -45% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $64.63 | ↓ -43% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $75.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $75.31 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $76.99 | ↓ -32% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $86.55 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $87.21 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $93.15 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $110.49 | ↓ -2% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $113.05 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $116.87 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $123.34 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $140.00 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $151.81 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +36% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $175.34 | ↑ +55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $175.34 | ↑ +55% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $177.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $177.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $177.65 | ↑ +57% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $193.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $193.80 | ↑ +71% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $194.45 | ↑ +72% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $194.45 | ↑ +72% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $194.45 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $194.45 | ↑ +72% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $194.45 | ↑ +72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $194.45 | ↑ +72% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $196.39 | ↑ +74% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $198.34 | ↑ +75% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $198.34 | ↑ +75% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $200.28 | ↑ +77% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $208.06 | ↑ +84% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $208.06 | ↑ +84% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $209.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $209.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $209.95 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $209.95 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $209.95 | ↑ +86% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $213.90 | ↑ +89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $226.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $226.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $226.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $242.25 | ↑ +114% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $262.51 | ↑ +132% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $266.87 | ↑ +136% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $272.23 | ↑ +141% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $274.55 | ↑ +143% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $275.29 | ↑ +144% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $291.68 | ↑ +158% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $291.68 | ↑ +158% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $291.68 | ↑ +158% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $291.68 | ↑ +158% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $299.45 | ↑ +165% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $323.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +242% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $631.96 | ↑ +459% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +1383% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +2027% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +2049% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +2049% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +2088% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +2332% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +2332% |
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Diagnostic laryngoscopy 31505 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $113.05 | $87.21 – $323.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $60.30 – $463.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $55.08 – $463.81 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $56.20 – $463.81 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $325.51 | $56.20 – $490.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $242.14 | $49.84 – $490.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $231.71 | $56.20 – $490.70 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $325.51 | $56.20 – $490.70 |