Sodium chloride 3 % ivpb at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$24.14
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.
$68.95
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.
$0.05 with BCBS-TX vs $13.13 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 | $0.05 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $0.06 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $0.11 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $0.16 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.19 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.19 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $2.89 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3.42 | ↓ -86% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $3.55 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.34 | ↓ -82% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $4.60 | ↓ -81% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $4.76 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $6.18 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $6.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $6.31 | ↓ -74% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.44 | ↓ -73% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.23 | ↓ -70% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $7.23 | ↓ -70% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $7.23 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $7.88 | ↓ -67% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $7.88 | ↓ -67% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $8.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $8.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $9.20 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $9.20 | ↓ -62% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $9.20 | ↓ -62% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $9.20 | ↓ -62% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $9.20 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3-PPO | $9.46 | ↓ -61% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $9.85 | ↓ -59% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $10.85 | ↓ -55% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $11.17 | ↓ -54% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $13.13 | ↓ -46% |
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Sodium chloride 3 % ivpb at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $24.14 | $0.05 – $13.13 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $0.10 – $0.41 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $0.10 – $0.41 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $0.10 – $0.41 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $88.19 | $0.19 – $0.19 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $31.39 | $3.06 – $15.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $31.39 | $2.22 – $16.20 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $31.39 | $2.16 – $13.50 |