Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$86.76
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.
$247.87
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.
$0.08 with BCBS-TX vs $49.86 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 |
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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $0.15 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.19 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $0.23 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $6.54 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $9.85 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9.85 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.85 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $10.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12.97 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $12.97 | ↓ -85% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $13.47 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $14.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $15.05 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $15.05 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $15.96 | ↓ -82% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16.46 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $17.46 | ↓ -80% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $18.04 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $23.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $23.94 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $23.94 | ↓ -72% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.44 | ↓ -72% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $27.43 | ↓ -68% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $27.43 | ↓ -68% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $27.43 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $29.92 | ↓ -66% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $29.92 | ↓ -66% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $32.41 | ↓ -63% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $32.41 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $32.41 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $34.91 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $34.91 | ↓ -60% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $34.91 | ↓ -60% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $34.91 | ↓ -60% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $34.91 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $35.90 | ↓ -59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $37.40 | ↓ -57% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $41.20 | ↓ -53% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $42.39 | ↓ -51% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $49.86 | ↓ -43% |
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Morphine 4 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $86.76 | $0.06 – $49.86 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.14 – $22.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.14 – $22.30 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.14 – $22.30 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $146.64 | $0.26 – $17.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center | Pasadena | $18.38 | $0.08 – $6.54 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $221.04 | $0.15 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $86.76 | $0.08 – $49.86 |