MRI chest w IV cont at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$1,414.00
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.
$4,040.00
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.
$323.20 with TCHP vs $4,040.00 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 | $323.20 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $323.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $385.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $392.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $392.60 | ↓ -72% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $392.95 | ↓ -72% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $392.95 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $400.45 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $404.51 | ↓ -71% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $433.09 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $451.49 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $526.08 | ↓ -63% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $537.86 | ↓ -62% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $569.76 | ↓ -60% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $604.60 | ↓ -57% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $799.25 | ↓ -43% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -42% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -40% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -40% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $870.47 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $994.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,015.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,023.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,050.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,050.00 | ↓ -26% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,068.31 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,090.80 | ↓ -23% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $1,100.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,107.88 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,119.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,145.00 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,157.39 | ↓ -18% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,187.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,187.01 | ↓ -16% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,218.66 | ↓ -14% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,224.91 | ↓ -13% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,224.91 | ↓ -13% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,398.60 | ↓ -1% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,414.00 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,461.68 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,535.00 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,898.80 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,110.54 | ↑ +49% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,222.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,222.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,222.00 | ↑ +57% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,266.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $2,383.60 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,424.00 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,518.00 | ↑ +78% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,518.00 | ↑ +78% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,571.86 | ↑ +82% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,626.00 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,626.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,626.00 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,634.77 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,747.20 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,812.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,828.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,828.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,828.00 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,961.57 | ↑ +109% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,030.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,337.85 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,434.00 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,040.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,414.00 | $385.25 – $4,040.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $392.60 – $1,463.76 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $377.55 – $1,361.64 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $385.25 – $1,463.76 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,581.08 | $385.25 – $2,149.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,325.74 | $478.72 – $3,488.62 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,584.06 | $385.25 – $3,230.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,581.08 | $385.25 – $2,149.00 |