Reticulocyte automated at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$40.95
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.
$117.00
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.
$2.87 with Renaissance vs $117.00 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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| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $2.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.35 | ↓ -92% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.35 | ↓ -92% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.35 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.42 | ↓ -92% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $3.42 | ↓ -92% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $3.42 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.52 | ↓ -91% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $3.85 | ↓ -91% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $3.99 | ↓ -90% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -90% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -90% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $3.99 | ↓ -90% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -90% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $4.03 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $4.07 | ↓ -90% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.07 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $4.11 | ↓ -90% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -90% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -90% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $4.39 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $4.49 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $4.49 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $4.59 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $5.16 | ↓ -87% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $5.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $5.59 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $5.83 | ↓ -86% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $5.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $5.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $6.14 | ↓ -85% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.58 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $7.40 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.40 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $7.40 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7.40 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $7.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $9.91 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.45 | ↓ -74% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.45 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $10.93 | ↓ -73% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $12.97 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $13.01 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $14.96 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $17.48 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $20.47 | ↓ -50% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $31.59 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $40.95 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $42.34 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $54.99 | ↑ +34% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $64.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $64.35 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $64.35 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $70.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $76.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $76.05 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $76.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $79.56 | ↑ +94% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $81.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $81.90 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $81.90 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $87.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $96.67 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $99.45 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $117.00 | ↑ +186% |
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Reticulocyte automated at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $337.61 | $3.35 – $16.71 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $40.95 | $2.87 – $117.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $3.28 – $16.71 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $3.35 – $16.71 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $137.85 | $3.59 – $15.36 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $63.76 | $3.35 – $79.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $59.71 | $5.85 – $89.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $65.98 | $3.35 – $82.47 |