Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$567.35
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.
$1,621.00
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.
$123.58 with Renaissance vs $1,264.00 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 | $123.58 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -70% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -70% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -70% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $171.64 | ↓ -70% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $171.64 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $171.64 | ↓ -70% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $173.36 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $175.07 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $175.07 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $176.79 | ↓ -69% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $183.65 | ↓ -68% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $183.65 | ↓ -68% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $188.80 | ↓ -67% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $231.71 | ↓ -59% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $240.30 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $257.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $257.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $257.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $257.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $264.33 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $285.75 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $315.32 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $323.15 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $323.15 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $323.15 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $323.15 | ↓ -43% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $341.28 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $413.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $431.08 | ↓ -24% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $442.40 | ↓ -22% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $457.32 | ↓ -19% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $487.05 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $538.48 | ↓ -5% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $557.83 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $594.08 | ↑ +5% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $695.20 | ↑ +23% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $695.20 | ↑ +23% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $695.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $745.76 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $758.40 | ↑ +34% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $821.60 | ↑ +45% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $821.60 | ↑ +45% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $821.60 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $859.52 | ↑ +51% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $884.80 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $884.80 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $884.80 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $923.92 | ↑ +63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $948.00 | ↑ +67% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,044.32 | ↑ +84% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,074.40 | ↑ +89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,241.34 | ↑ +119% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,264.00 | ↑ +123% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,264.00 | ↑ +123% |
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Immunofluorescence per specimen initial single antibody stain at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $567.35 | $88.10 – $1,264.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,258.00 | $291.26 – $587.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $291.26 – $587.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $291.26 – $587.63 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,007.00 | $13.80 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,007.00 | $10.03 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,007.00 | $9.74 – $423.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,007.00 | $12.99 – $423.12 |