Ghs peritonsillar abscess i andd at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$202.30
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.
$578.00
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.
$87.58 with Wellpoint vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $87.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $87.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $87.58 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $87.58 | ↓ -57% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $87.58 | ↓ -57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $89.33 | ↓ -56% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $89.33 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $89.33 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $91.96 | ↓ -55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $100.72 | ↓ -50% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $117.36 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $117.36 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $119.98 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $134.87 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $152.73 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $156.06 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $167.47 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $195.49 | ↓ -3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $202.30 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $209.13 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $232.60 | ↑ +15% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +15% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $232.60 | ↑ +15% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +15% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $234.93 | ↑ +16% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +17% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +17% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $239.58 | ↑ +18% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +23% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +23% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $255.86 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $271.66 | ↑ +34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $273.25 | ↑ +35% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $273.25 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $295.28 | ↑ +46% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $314.01 | ↑ +55% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $317.90 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $317.90 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $317.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $325.64 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $346.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +72% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +72% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $348.90 | ↑ +72% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $348.90 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $350.26 | ↑ +73% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $353.79 | ↑ +75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $358.20 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $375.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $375.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $375.70 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $390.99 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $393.04 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $404.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $404.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $404.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $433.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $439.28 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $477.55 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $491.30 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $578.00 | ↑ +186% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $755.95 | ↑ +274% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +299% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↑ +366% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $958.00 | ↑ +374% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +380% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,345.00 | ↑ +565% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,345.00 | ↑ +565% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↑ +728% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +728% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +821% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +915% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1123% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1259% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1259% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +2118% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,487.00 | ↑ +2118% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +2451% |
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Ghs peritonsillar abscess i andd at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $202.30 | $156.06 – $578.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $93.97 – $417.46 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $85.83 – $354.33 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $87.58 – $354.33 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,646.52 | $254.55 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,453.82 | $87.58 – $1,817.27 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $867.02 | $71.00 – $1,300.53 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $844.18 | $71.00 – $1,055.22 |