Ear irrigation 69209 at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$101.50
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.
$290.00
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.
$23.20 with Wellpoint 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $23.20 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $23.20 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $23.20 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $23.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $23.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $23.20 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $23.67 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $23.67 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $23.67 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.36 | ↓ -76% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $31.09 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $31.09 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $31.09 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $31.79 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $41.26 | ↓ -59% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $42.84 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $52.81 | ↓ -48% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $59.50 | ↓ -41% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -41% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -41% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $59.50 | ↓ -41% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -41% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $60.09 | ↓ -41% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -40% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $61.28 | ↓ -40% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -37% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -37% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $65.45 | ↓ -36% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $72.39 | ↓ -29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $72.39 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $78.30 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $79.76 | ↓ -21% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $80.33 | ↓ -21% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $83.30 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↓ -12% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↓ -12% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $89.25 | ↓ -12% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.25 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $91.63 | ↓ -10% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $93.09 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $94.62 | ↓ -7% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $101.50 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $104.93 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $105.62 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $136.30 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +52% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $159.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $159.50 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $159.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $174.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $188.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $188.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $188.50 | ↑ +86% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $193.38 | ↑ +91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $197.20 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $203.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $203.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $203.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $217.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $220.40 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $239.60 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $246.50 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $290.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +281% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +695% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +858% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +1551% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +2269% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +2294% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +2294% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +2337% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +2608% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +2608% |
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Ear irrigation 69209 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $101.50 | $31.90 – $290.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $112.77 – $112.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $59.56 – $95.72 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $95.72 – $95.72 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $461.34 | $68.76 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $215.33 | $56.30 – $269.17 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $84.92 | $17.48 – $151.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $123.74 | $24.75 – $154.67 |