Fl exam g/colon tube w contrast at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$220.85
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.
$631.00
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.
$140.00 with Cigna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -30% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $170.37 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $174.32 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $174.78 | ↓ -21% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $220.85 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $223.72 | ↑ +1% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $228.30 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $242.11 | ↑ +10% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↑ +10% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↑ +10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $242.11 | ↑ +10% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↑ +10% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $244.53 | ↑ +11% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↑ +12% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↑ +12% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $249.37 | ↑ +13% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↑ +17% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↑ +17% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $266.32 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $296.57 | ↑ +34% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $326.85 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $337.91 | ↑ +53% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $338.95 | ↑ +53% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $347.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $347.05 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $347.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.17 | ↑ +64% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $363.17 | ↑ +64% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↑ +64% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $372.85 | ↑ +69% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $378.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $378.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $384.80 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $400.83 | ↑ +81% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $410.15 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $410.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $410.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $410.15 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $410.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $429.08 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $441.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $441.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $441.70 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $447.44 | ↑ +103% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $473.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $479.56 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $521.34 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $536.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $631.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $786.86 | ↑ +256% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +265% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +340% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +659% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +989% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +1000% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +1000% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1020% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1145% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1145% |
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Fl exam g/colon tube w contrast at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $615.45 | $477.73 – $477.73 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $220.85 | $170.37 – $631.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $2,218.00 | $240.89 – $405.49 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $405.49 – $405.49 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,253.36 | $291.30 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $627.02 | $111.00 – $783.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $696.17 | $71.00 – $1,044.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $478.87 | $71.00 – $607.02 |