Epoprostenol (arginine) 1 mg in 50 ml ns inhalation syringe - cnr at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$129.27
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.
$369.33
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.
$9.82 with BCBS-TX vs $131.17 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 | $9.82 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $11.08 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $19.10 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $23.48 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $23.97 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $28.86 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $29.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $34.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $34.11 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $35.35 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $35.35 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $35.35 | ↓ -73% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $35.42 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $41.98 | ↓ -68% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $43.29 | ↓ -67% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $45.91 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $46.79 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $47.23 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $47.23 | ↓ -63% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $47.46 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $61.65 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $62.97 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $62.97 | ↓ -51% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $64.28 | ↓ -50% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $72.15 | ↓ -44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $72.15 | ↓ -44% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $72.15 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $78.71 | ↓ -39% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $78.71 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $85.27 | ↓ -34% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $85.27 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $85.27 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $91.82 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $91.82 | ↓ -29% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $91.82 | ↓ -29% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $91.82 | ↓ -29% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $91.82 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $94.45 | ↓ -27% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $98.38 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $108.38 | ↓ -16% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $111.50 | ↓ -14% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $131.17 | ↑ +1% |
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Epoprostenol (arginine) 1 mg in 50 ml ns inhalation syringe - cnr at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $129.27 | $8.11 – $131.17 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $16.08 – $157.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $15.65 – $157.20 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $16.08 – $157.20 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $89.40 | $33.70 – $60.65 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $308.99 | $16.08 – $157.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $129.27 | $9.82 – $131.17 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $129.27 | $9.82 – $131.17 |