Drainage external ear simple 69000 at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$608.65
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.
$1,739.00
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.
$97.71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $97.71 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $107.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $107.14 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $107.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $107.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $107.14 | ↓ -82% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $109.28 | ↓ -82% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $109.28 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $109.28 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $112.50 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $123.21 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $125.07 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $143.57 | ↓ -76% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $143.57 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $146.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $165.00 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $188.91 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $224.08 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $250.14 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $334.28 | ↓ -45% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $334.28 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↓ -36% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $469.53 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $507.41 | ↓ -17% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $608.65 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $629.18 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +16% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $704.73 | ↑ +16% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +16% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +16% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $704.73 | ↑ +16% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $704.73 | ↑ +16% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $711.78 | ↑ +17% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $718.82 | ↑ +18% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $718.82 | ↑ +18% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $725.87 | ↑ +19% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $754.06 | ↑ +24% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $754.06 | ↑ +24% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $775.20 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $817.33 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +55% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $951.39 | ↑ +56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $956.45 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $956.45 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $956.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $986.62 | ↑ +62% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,040.66 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,043.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,043.40 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,057.10 | ↑ +74% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,057.10 | ↑ +74% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,057.10 | ↑ +74% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,057.10 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,085.28 | ↑ +78% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $1,130.35 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,130.35 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,130.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,130.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,130.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,182.52 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,217.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,217.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,217.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,304.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,321.64 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,436.77 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,478.15 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +175% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,739.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,290.37 | ↑ +276% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +299% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +299% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +306% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +352% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +352% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $608.65 | $469.53 – $1,739.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $114.96 – $940.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $105.00 – $940.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $107.14 – $940.62 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $565.76 | $162.85 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $984.69 | $107.14 – $1,742.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $997.05 | $71.00 – $1,742.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,005.88 | $71.00 – $1,742.94 |