Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$0.59
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.
$1.67
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.
$0.06 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $0.26 with BCBS-TX — 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 |
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| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $0.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $0.07 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $0.07 | ↓ -88% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $0.08 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $0.09 | ↓ -85% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.09 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.09 | ↓ -85% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $0.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $0.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $0.13 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $0.13 | ↓ -78% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.13 | ↓ -78% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $0.15 | ↓ -75% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $0.15 | ↓ -75% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $0.15 | ↓ -75% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $0.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $0.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $0.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $0.17 | ↓ -71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.17 | ↓ -71% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $0.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $0.19 | ↓ -68% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $0.19 | ↓ -68% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $0.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $0.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $0.19 | ↓ -68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $0.20 | ↓ -66% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $0.22 | ↓ -63% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $0.23 | ↓ -61% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $0.26 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $0.26 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.26 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $0.26 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $0.26 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $0.26 | ↓ -56% |
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Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $53.54 | $0.23 – $2.05 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $0.59 | $0.06 – $0.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $49.92 | $0.23 – $2.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.14 – $2.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $55.57 | $0.23 – $2.05 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $12.31 | $0.82 – $1.48 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $43.23 | $0.14 – $2.05 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $49.02 | $0.23 – $2.05 |