Smear wet mount at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$82.60
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.
$236.00
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.
$4.19 with Renaissance vs $236.00 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 | $4.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.89 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.89 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.89 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $4.99 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $4.99 | ↓ -94% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $4.99 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.13 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $5.62 | ↓ -93% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $5.88 | ↓ -93% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $5.94 | ↓ -93% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.94 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -93% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6.23 | ↓ -92% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $6.23 | ↓ -92% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $6.55 | ↓ -92% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $6.55 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $6.70 | ↓ -92% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $7.53 | ↓ -91% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $7.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $8.15 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8.73 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $8.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.60 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $11.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $14.04 | ↓ -83% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.26 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $15.26 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $15.49 | ↓ -81% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $18.91 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $18.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.19 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $25.49 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $29.86 | ↓ -64% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $63.72 | ↓ -23% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $82.60 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $85.39 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $110.92 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $129.80 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $129.80 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $129.80 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $139.24 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $141.60 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $153.40 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $153.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $153.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $160.48 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $165.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $165.20 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $165.20 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $177.00 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $194.99 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $200.60 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $236.00 | ↑ +186% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $82.60 | $4.19 – $236.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $577.71 | $4.89 – $23.69 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $4.89 – $23.69 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $4.79 – $23.69 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $129.55 | $5.24 – $22.41 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $75.59 | $4.89 – $94.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $68.63 | $8.53 – $102.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $63.11 | $4.89 – $78.89 |