Nerve conduction studies 5-6 at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$1,491.35
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.
$4,261.00
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.
$99.97 with BCBS-TX vs $4,261.00 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $99.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $115.71 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $145.16 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $191.72 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $217.00 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $217.73 | ↓ -85% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $224.57 | ↓ -85% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $311.90 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $311.90 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↓ -79% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↓ -79% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $315.02 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $318.14 | ↓ -79% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $318.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $321.26 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $322.00 | ↓ -78% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↓ -78% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↓ -78% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $343.09 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $355.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $355.00 | ↓ -76% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $421.06 | ↓ -72% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $436.66 | ↓ -71% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $442.58 | ↓ -70% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $467.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $467.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $480.33 | ↓ -68% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,013.67 | ↓ -32% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $1,150.47 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,491.35 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,541.63 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $2,002.67 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,343.55 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $2,343.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $2,343.55 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,556.60 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,769.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,769.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,769.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,982.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,982.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,982.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,195.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $3,520.44 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $3,621.85 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $4,261.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Nerve conduction studies 5-6 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,491.35 | $80.79 – $4,261.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $160.22 – $653.94 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $160.22 – $653.94 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $160.22 – $653.94 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $511.26 | $144.86 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $440.08 | $90.58 – $777.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $676.12 | $135.22 – $845.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $511.26 | $136.34 – $777.56 |