Gastro/jejuno tube, std at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$765.10
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.
$2,186.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $536.00 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 |
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| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -87% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $144.72 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $187.60 | ↓ -75% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $193.93 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $251.92 | ↓ -67% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $294.80 | ↓ -61% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $294.80 | ↓ -61% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $294.80 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $321.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $348.40 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $348.40 | ↓ -54% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $348.40 | ↓ -54% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $375.20 | ↓ -51% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $375.20 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $375.20 | ↓ -51% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $402.00 | ↓ -47% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $442.85 | ↓ -42% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $455.60 | ↓ -40% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $536.00 | ↓ -30% |
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Gastro/jejuno tube, std at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $765.10 | $100.00 – $536.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $33.01 – $257.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $33.01 – $257.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $33.01 – $257.82 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $1,235.37 | not published |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $360.52 | $216.32 – $772.54 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $236.43 | $4.85 – $74.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $60.96 | $32.03 – $115.29 |