Artery x-rays lung at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,173.69
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.
$3,353.40
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.
$123.48 with CHC vs $4,787.23 with Bright Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $123.48 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $123.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $129.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $132.58 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $178.07 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $223.33 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $245.97 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $301.79 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $405.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,978.51 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,012.04 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,179.71 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,179.71 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,280.32 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,347.38 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,347.38 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,515.05 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +169% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +169% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +169% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $3,152.60 | ↑ +169% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +174% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,215.65 | ↑ +174% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,247.18 | ↑ +177% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $3,353.40 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $3,353.40 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $3,353.40 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,353.40 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3,353.40 | ↑ +186% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +187% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,373.28 | ↑ +187% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +303% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,728.90 | ↑ +303% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $4,728.90 | ↑ +303% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,787.23 | ↑ +308% |
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Artery x-rays lung at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $127.38 – $4,877.45 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,150.00 | $129.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,402.00 | $700.25 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,344.80 | $129.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,150.00 | $129.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,402.00 | $139.08 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,402.00 | $129.98 – $7,896.23 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,344.80 | $129.98 – $7,896.23 |