Arthrocentesis/aspiration/inj major joint/bursa without Ultrasound guidance (both sides) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$334.95
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.
$957.00
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.
$23.28 with BCBS-TX 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $23.28 | ↓ -93% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.56 | ↓ -92% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.56 | ↓ -92% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.96 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $28.52 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $29.80 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $38.31 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $45.01 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $53.39 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $59.60 | ↓ -82% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $87.24 | ↓ -74% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -12% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -12% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $295.67 | ↓ -12% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $301.58 | ↓ -10% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $301.58 | ↓ -10% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $304.54 | ↓ -9% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $316.37 | ↓ -6% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $316.37 | ↓ -6% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $436.92 | ↑ +30% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $443.50 | ↑ +32% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $443.50 | ↑ +32% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $443.51 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $574.02 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $621.86 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $621.86 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $621.86 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $650.56 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $669.69 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $669.69 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $717.53 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $727.10 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +141% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +190% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +400% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +457% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +513% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +639% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +721% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +721% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +1094% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $4,000.00 | ↑ +1094% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +1441% |
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Arthrocentesis/aspiration/inj major joint/bursa without Ultrasound guidance (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $27.40 – $224.11 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $658.01 | $38.80 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $715.37 | $27.96 – $894.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $592.44 | $29.92 – $888.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,080.06 | $27.96 – $1,350.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $715.37 | $27.96 – $894.22 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $592.44 | $29.92 – $888.66 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $592.44 | $27.96 – $888.66 |