Intracranial complete study at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$549.85
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.
$1,571.00
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.
$125.68 with TCHP vs $1,571.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $125.68 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $125.68 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $168.42 | ↓ -69% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $174.32 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $233.52 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $233.52 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $233.52 | ↓ -58% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $238.19 | ↓ -57% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $238.19 | ↓ -57% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $238.19 | ↓ -57% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↓ -56% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -56% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -56% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $242.11 | ↓ -56% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -56% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $244.53 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $245.00 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $245.20 | ↓ -55% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -55% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -55% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $249.37 | ↓ -55% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -53% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -53% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $266.32 | ↓ -52% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $268.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $312.92 | ↓ -43% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $319.92 | ↓ -42% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $326.85 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $333.07 | ↓ -39% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $338.95 | ↓ -38% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $359.62 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $361.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -34% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -34% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $372.85 | ↓ -32% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $384.80 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $385.54 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $401.00 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.00 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $424.17 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $483.64 | ↓ -12% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $549.85 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $568.39 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $638.76 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $709.90 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $725.45 | ↑ +32% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $728.58 | ↑ +33% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $728.58 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $738.37 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $781.85 | ↑ +42% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $786.86 | ↑ +43% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $864.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $864.05 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $864.05 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $942.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $959.33 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,021.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,021.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,021.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,099.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,099.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,099.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,178.25 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,297.97 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,335.35 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,571.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Intracranial complete study at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,214.10 | $230.13 – $818.24 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $549.85 | $172.81 – $1,571.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $230.13 – $818.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,308.50 | $227.71 – $1,635.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,308.50 | $269.33 – $1,962.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $687.43 | $227.71 – $1,117.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,308.50 | $227.71 – $1,635.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,308.50 | $227.71 – $1,962.75 |