Strapping of elbow or wrist 29260 at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$86.80
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.
$248.00
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.
$19.84 with Wellpoint vs $4,000.00 with Humana — 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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| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $19.84 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $19.84 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $19.84 | ↓ -77% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $19.84 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $19.84 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $19.84 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $20.24 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $20.24 | ↓ -77% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $20.24 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.84 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $25.07 | ↓ -71% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $26.59 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $26.59 | ↓ -69% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $26.59 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $27.19 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $32.09 | ↓ -63% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $42.84 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $48.47 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $57.50 | ↓ -34% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -31% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $59.50 | ↓ -31% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $59.50 | ↓ -31% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $59.50 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $60.09 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -30% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $60.69 | ↓ -30% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $61.28 | ↓ -29% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $61.91 | ↓ -29% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $61.91 | ↓ -29% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -27% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $63.66 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $64.19 | ↓ -26% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $65.45 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $66.96 | ↓ -23% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $80.33 | ↓ -7% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $83.30 | ↓ -4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $86.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.25 | ↑ +3% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +3% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $89.25 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $89.25 | ↑ +3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $89.73 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $91.63 | ↑ +6% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $93.09 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $116.56 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $136.40 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $136.40 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $136.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $140.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $148.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $148.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $154.00 | ↑ +77% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $161.20 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $161.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $161.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $161.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $161.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $168.64 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $173.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $173.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $173.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $186.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $188.48 | ↑ +117% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $193.38 | ↑ +123% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $204.90 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $210.80 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $248.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $387.00 | ↑ +346% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +1831% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,404.80 | ↑ +2671% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +2750% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +3067% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +3067% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +4508% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +4508% |
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Strapping of elbow or wrist 29260 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $86.80 | $27.28 – $248.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $68.53 – $68.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $58.17 – $59.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $58.17 – $58.17 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $408.08 | $41.79 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $215.27 | $56.30 – $269.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $216.94 | $44.65 – $325.40 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $199.99 | $40.00 – $249.98 |