Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,239.30
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.
$6,398.00
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.
$318.20 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 Plans | $318.20 | ↓ -86% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $318.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $334.95 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $341.65 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $458.88 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $589.44 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $754.48 | ↓ -66% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -58% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -58% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $939.08 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $957.86 | ↓ -57% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $957.86 | ↓ -57% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $967.25 | ↓ -57% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,004.82 | ↓ -55% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,004.82 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,045.04 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.00 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,139.58 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,298.00 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,351.78 | ↓ -40% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,353.15 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,408.62 | ↓ -37% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,408.62 | ↓ -37% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,408.62 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,508.97 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,303.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,400.00 | ↑ +52% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +69% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,838.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,158.70 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,158.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,158.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,350.64 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,478.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,478.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,798.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,862.48 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +130% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $328.25 – $1,367.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,666.30 | $71.00 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,457.75 | $71.00 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,627.09 | $334.95 – $2,245.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,666.30 | $85.00 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,666.30 | $334.95 – $2,499.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,457.75 | $71.00 – $2,245.59 |