Radiation treatment delivery at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$1,178.80
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.
$3,368.00
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.
$189.66 with Renaissance vs $3,368.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $189.66 | ↓ -84% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $263.41 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $263.41 | ↓ -78% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $263.41 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $263.41 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $263.41 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $263.41 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $266.04 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $268.68 | ↓ -77% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $268.68 | ↓ -77% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $271.31 | ↓ -77% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $281.85 | ↓ -76% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $281.85 | ↓ -76% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $289.75 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $354.63 | ↓ -70% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $355.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $368.77 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $371.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $395.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $395.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $395.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $395.12 | ↓ -66% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $404.23 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $405.65 | ↓ -66% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $856.08 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $857.44 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $909.36 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $943.04 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,044.08 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,107.62 | ↓ -6% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,178.80 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,218.55 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,231.50 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,380.88 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,582.96 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,852.40 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,852.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,852.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,987.12 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,020.80 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,033.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,189.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,189.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,189.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,290.24 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,357.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,357.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,357.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,526.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,782.65 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,862.80 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,001.00 | ↑ +155% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,334.00 | ↑ +183% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,334.00 | ↑ +183% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,368.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Radiation treatment delivery at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,178.80 | $291.48 – $3,368.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $444.51 – $4,800.93 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $444.51 – $4,800.93 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,400.00 | $378.92 – $3,000.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,000.00 | $617.50 – $4,500.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,600.00 | $527.31 – $4,500.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,400.00 | $233.18 – $3,000.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,000.00 | $527.31 – $4,500.00 |