Med physic dos eval rad exps at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$442.05
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.
$1,263.00
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.
$140.00 with United vs $1,727.24 with NX Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -48% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $341.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $382.65 | ↓ -13% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $442.05 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $456.96 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $531.46 | ↑ +20% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $531.46 | ↑ +20% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $531.46 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $531.46 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $531.46 | ↑ +20% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $531.46 | ↑ +20% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $536.77 | ↑ +21% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $542.09 | ↑ +23% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $542.09 | ↑ +23% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $547.40 | ↑ +24% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $566.30 | ↑ +28% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $568.66 | ↑ +29% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $568.66 | ↑ +29% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $584.61 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $593.61 | ↑ +34% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $694.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $694.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $694.65 | ↑ +57% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $717.47 | ↑ +62% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $744.04 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $745.17 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $757.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $797.19 | ↑ +80% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $797.19 | ↑ +80% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $797.19 | ↑ +80% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $797.19 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $818.45 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $820.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $820.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $820.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $858.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $884.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $884.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $884.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $947.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,015.90 | ↑ +130% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,043.50 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,073.55 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,118.86 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,263.00 | ↑ +186% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,263.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,263.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,263.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,263.00 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,263.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,372.86 | ↑ +211% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,727.24 | ↑ +291% |
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Med physic dos eval rad exps at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $442.05 | $341.01 – $1,263.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $241.05 – $1,653.71 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $241.05 – $1,653.71 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $241.05 – $1,653.71 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $798.01 | $226.10 – $1,327.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $674.72 | $138.88 – $1,327.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $534.14 | $106.83 – $1,327.77 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $798.01 | $212.80 – $1,327.77 |