Ascenda two piece catheter at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$18,583.01
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.
$53,094.30
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.
$8,030.61 with BCBS-TX vs $28,680.75 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $8,030.61 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $8,413.02 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $9,177.84 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $9,560.25 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $9,942.66 | ↓ -46% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,942.66 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $10,325.07 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $10,707.48 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $11,089.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $11,089.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11,472.30 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $11,472.30 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $11,472.30 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $11,472.30 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $11,854.71 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11,854.71 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $14,149.17 | ↓ -24% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $16,061.22 | ↓ -14% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $16,061.22 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $22,944.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $24,856.65 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $24,856.65 | ↑ +34% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $24,856.65 | ↑ +34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $26,768.70 | ↑ +44% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $26,768.70 | ↑ +44% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $28,680.75 | ↑ +54% |
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Ascenda two piece catheter at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $23,446.50 | $5,250.92 – $37,094.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $23,446.50 | $8,243.20 – $35,033.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |
| St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital | Navasota | $23,446.50 | $8,243.20 – $45,749.76 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $63,744.10 | $487.31 – $2,320.50 |