Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$127.05
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.
$363.00
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.
$13.39 with TCHP vs $272.25 with MultiPlan — 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 | $13.39 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.39 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.09 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $14.37 | ↓ -89% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -87% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -87% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $16.77 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $17.11 | ↓ -87% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $17.11 | ↓ -87% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -86% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $17.94 | ↓ -86% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $17.94 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $19.30 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $24.48 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $25.16 | ↓ -80% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $25.16 | ↓ -80% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $25.16 | ↓ -80% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.67 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $31.07 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $31.07 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $31.07 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $31.07 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $31.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $39.65 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $43.75 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $43.96 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $54.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $59.82 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $73.45 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $86.03 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $217.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $235.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $235.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $246.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $254.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $254.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $272.25 | ↑ +114% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $13.81 – $68.28 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $271.79 | $15.09 – $64.56 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $252.87 | $10.00 – $180.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $252.87 | $12.00 – $196.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $252.87 | $12.00 – $166.68 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $252.87 | $10.00 – $180.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $252.87 | $12.00 – $196.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $252.87 | $8.00 – $196.45 |