Rbc irradiated each unit at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$443.10
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.
$1,266.00
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.
$88.00 with United vs $1,266.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $88.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $93.30 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $93.30 | ↓ -79% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $93.30 | ↓ -79% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $93.30 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $95.17 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $107.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $107.61 | ↓ -76% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $125.02 | ↓ -72% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $125.02 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $127.82 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $129.00 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $143.68 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $144.00 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $144.00 | ↓ -68% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $149.46 | ↓ -66% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $149.46 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $149.46 | ↓ -66% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $149.46 | ↓ -66% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $149.46 | ↓ -66% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $149.46 | ↓ -66% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $150.95 | ↓ -66% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $152.45 | ↓ -66% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $152.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $153.94 | ↓ -65% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $159.92 | ↓ -64% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $159.92 | ↓ -64% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $164.41 | ↓ -63% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $201.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $209.24 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $224.19 | ↓ -49% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $224.19 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $224.19 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $224.19 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $230.17 | ↓ -48% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $283.06 | ↓ -36% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $291.10 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $291.10 | ↓ -34% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $341.82 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $443.10 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $458.04 | ↑ +3% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $485.75 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $595.02 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $696.30 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $696.30 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $696.30 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $759.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $822.90 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $822.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $822.90 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $886.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $886.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $886.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $949.50 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,045.97 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,076.10 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $1,266.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Rbc irradiated each unit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $443.10 | $93.30 – $1,266.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $62.80 – $2,082.31 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $62.80 – $2,082.31 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $62.80 – $2,082.31 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $517.86 | $135.65 – $647.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $765.59 | $157.58 – $1,148.38 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $846.17 | $135.65 – $1,057.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $517.86 | $135.65 – $647.33 |