Spinal puncture lumbar diagnostic w/fluoroscopic or CT guidance at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$1,234.80
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.
$3,528.00
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.
$262.86 with TCHP vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $262.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $262.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $262.86 | ↓ -79% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $262.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $262.86 | ↓ -79% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $268.12 | ↓ -78% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $268.12 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $268.12 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $276.00 | ↓ -78% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $302.29 | ↓ -76% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $352.23 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $352.23 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $360.12 | ↓ -71% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $404.80 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $468.79 | ↓ -62% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $499.42 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $600.05 | ↓ -51% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -44% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $693.64 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $693.64 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -44% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $693.64 | ↓ -44% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $700.58 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $707.51 | ↓ -43% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $707.51 | ↓ -43% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $714.45 | ↓ -42% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $742.19 | ↓ -40% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $742.19 | ↓ -40% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $763.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -35% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $820.12 | ↓ -34% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $820.12 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $906.32 | ↓ -27% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $936.41 | ↓ -24% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $952.56 | ↓ -23% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $971.10 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,040.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,040.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,040.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,040.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,061.91 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $1,068.21 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,075.09 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,200.10 | ↓ -3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $1,234.80 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $1,276.44 | ↑ +3% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $1,658.16 | ↑ +34% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +51% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,940.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,940.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,940.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,116.80 | ↑ +71% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $2,254.33 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,293.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,293.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $2,293.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,399.04 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,469.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,469.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $2,469.60 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,646.00 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +123% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +123% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,914.84 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $2,998.80 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $3,528.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +318% |
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Spinal puncture lumbar diagnostic w/fluoroscopic or CT guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,234.80 | $952.56 – $3,528.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $5,817.00 | $257.60 – $1,087.59 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $282.06 – $1,281.35 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $262.86 – $1,087.59 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,692.88 | $262.86 – $3,693.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,010.48 | $207.99 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,030.57 | $262.86 – $2,975.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,692.88 | $262.86 – $3,693.00 |