Myelography l-s spine at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$971.60
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.
$2,776.00
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.
$109.26 with Wellpoint vs $2,776.00 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 |
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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $109.26 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $109.93 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $109.93 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $111.45 | ↓ -89% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $111.45 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $112.13 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $114.72 | ↓ -88% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $126.42 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $147.31 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $150.60 | ↓ -84% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $169.29 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -78% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $222.08 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $222.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $222.27 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $244.79 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $297.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $300.37 | ↓ -69% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $342.98 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $342.98 | ↓ -65% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $569.76 | ↓ -41% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $749.52 | ↓ -23% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -19% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $791.34 | ↓ -19% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -19% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $791.34 | ↓ -19% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -19% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $799.25 | ↓ -18% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -17% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -17% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -16% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -13% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -13% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $870.47 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $959.96 | ↓ -1% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $971.60 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $994.00 | ↑ +2% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,004.36 | ↑ +3% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $1,068.31 | ↑ +10% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $1,107.88 | ↑ +14% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,187.01 | ↑ +22% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↑ +22% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↑ +22% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,187.01 | ↑ +22% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,218.66 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,304.72 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,526.80 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,526.80 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,526.80 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,637.84 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,665.60 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,742.90 | ↑ +79% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,804.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,804.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,804.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,887.68 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,943.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,943.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,943.20 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,042.46 | ↑ +110% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,082.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,293.54 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,294.36 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,359.60 | ↑ +143% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,571.86 | ↑ +165% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,776.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Myelography l-s spine at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $971.60 | $109.26 – $2,776.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $109.93 – $1,198.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $107.07 – $1,198.24 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $109.26 – $1,198.24 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,350.68 | $109.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,334.09 | $274.60 – $2,001.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,334.09 | $109.26 – $1,983.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,350.68 | $109.26 – $1,983.49 |