X-ray of mammary ducts at St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital
20171 Chasewood Park Drive, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1710314141
$707.35
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.
$2,021.00
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.
$69.16 with Wellpoint vs $2,021.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|CHIP | $69.16 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $69.16 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $69.50 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $70.54 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $70.89 | ↓ -90% |
| UHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $70.89 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS | Medicaid|All Plans | $72.97 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $79.53 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|STAR | $92.67 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $94.75 | ↓ -87% |
| CHC | Medicaid|STAR | $106.51 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $149.54 | ↓ -79% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $161.68 | ↓ -77% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STARKIDS | $161.68 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $164.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $174.32 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $202.08 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -70% |
| UHC | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $215.78 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $215.78 | ↓ -69% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|STAR | $216.66 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -67% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $242.11 | ↓ -66% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -66% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -66% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $242.11 | ↓ -66% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $242.11 | ↓ -66% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $244.53 | ↓ -65% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -65% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $246.95 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $249.37 | ↓ -65% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -63% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $259.06 | ↓ -63% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $266.32 | ↓ -62% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $326.85 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $328.59 | ↓ -54% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $338.95 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $340.24 | ↓ -52% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -49% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.17 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $363.17 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $372.85 | ↓ -47% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $384.80 | ↓ -46% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $545.67 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $596.58 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $699.12 | ↓ -1% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $707.35 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $731.20 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $785.34 | ↑ +11% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $786.86 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $949.87 | ↑ +34% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,111.55 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $1,111.55 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $1,111.55 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,192.39 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,212.60 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,313.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $1,313.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,313.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,374.28 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,414.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,414.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $1,414.70 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,515.75 | ↑ +114% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,669.76 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $1,717.85 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $2,021.00 | ↑ +186% |
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X-ray of mammary ducts at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $707.35 | $69.16 – $2,021.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $69.16 – $410.15 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $68.11 – $410.15 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $69.16 – $410.15 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $437.00 | $89.95 – $655.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $437.00 | $69.50 – $607.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $437.00 | $74.36 – $655.50 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $437.00 | $69.50 – $655.50 |