Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$2,160.20
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.
$6,172.00
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.
$468.79 with BCBS-TX vs $6,172.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $468.79 | ↓ -78% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $499.42 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $600.05 | ↓ -72% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $693.64 | ↓ -68% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -68% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -68% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $693.64 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $700.58 | ↓ -68% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $707.51 | ↓ -67% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $707.51 | ↓ -67% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $714.45 | ↓ -67% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $742.19 | ↓ -66% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $742.19 | ↓ -66% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $763.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $906.32 | ↓ -58% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $936.41 | ↓ -57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $942.30 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $958.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $971.10 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,040.46 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,040.46 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,040.46 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,040.46 | ↓ -52% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,061.91 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,068.21 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,075.09 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,200.10 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,345.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,345.00 | ↓ -38% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,666.44 | ↓ -23% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $1,675.00 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↓ -5% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $2,160.20 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $2,233.03 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,254.33 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,900.84 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,394.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $3,394.60 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $3,394.60 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,703.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $4,011.80 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,011.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,011.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,196.96 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $4,320.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,320.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,320.40 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $4,487.00 | ↑ +108% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,487.00 | ↑ +108% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,629.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,690.72 | ↑ +117% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $5,099.31 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +139% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $5,246.20 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $6,172.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,160.20 | $958.00 – $6,172.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $1,281.35 – $1,281.35 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,087.59 – $1,087.59 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,087.59 – $1,087.59 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $2,000.57 | $380.11 – $4,286.93 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,160.20 | $958.00 – $6,172.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $2,160.20 | $958.00 – $6,172.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $2,160.20 | $1,666.44 – $6,172.00 |