Ecg external < 48 hours recording at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$286.30
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.
$818.00
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.
$92.96 with Renaissance vs $818.00 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 | $92.96 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $108.00 | ↓ -62% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $129.11 | ↓ -55% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $129.11 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -55% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -55% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -55% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -55% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $130.40 | ↓ -54% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -54% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -54% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -54% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -52% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -52% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $142.02 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $159.18 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $160.00 | ↓ -44% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $174.30 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $178.00 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $178.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $180.75 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $184.26 | ↓ -36% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $188.56 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $193.67 | ↓ -32% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $193.67 | ↓ -32% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↓ -32% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $198.83 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $220.86 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $231.14 | ↓ -19% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $286.30 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $295.96 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $305.28 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $346.72 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $384.46 | ↑ +34% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $419.61 | ↑ +47% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $449.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $449.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $449.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $490.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $531.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $531.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $531.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $572.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $572.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $572.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $613.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $675.84 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $695.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $818.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Ecg external < 48 hours recording at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $286.30 | $100.00 – $818.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,391.00 | $246.13 – $255.13 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $246.13 – $255.13 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $246.13 – $255.13 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $598.24 | $126.97 – $747.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $762.46 | $156.94 – $1,143.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $877.25 | $126.97 – $1,096.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $598.24 | $126.97 – $917.00 |