Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic each addl sequential IV push same substance/drug at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$93.45
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.
$267.00
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.
$34.73 with BCBS-TX vs $267.00 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|MyBlue Health Exchange | $34.73 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $40.21 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $50.43 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $66.61 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $72.09 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $75.65 | ↓ -19% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $93.45 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $96.61 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $121.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $125.49 | ↑ +34% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $146.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $146.85 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $146.85 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $160.20 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $173.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $173.55 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $173.55 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $177.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $186.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $186.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $186.90 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $196.00 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $196.00 | ↑ +110% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $200.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $220.60 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $226.95 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $267.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic each addl sequential IV push same substance/drug at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $93.45 | $28.07 – $267.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $55.67 – $113.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $55.67 – $113.37 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $55.67 – $113.37 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $541.16 | $91.59 – $91.59 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $216.67 | $61.39 – $306.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $211.78 | $43.59 – $317.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $325.54 | $65.11 – $406.93 |