Assay of endocrine hormone at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$106.16
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.
$303.30
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.
$56.84 with CHC vs $303.30 with BCBS-TX — 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 | $56.84 | ↓ -46% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $56.84 | ↓ -46% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $59.83 | ↓ -44% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $61.03 | ↓ -43% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $71.23 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $71.23 | ↓ -33% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $71.23 | ↓ -33% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $71.23 | ↓ -33% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $72.65 | ↓ -32% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $72.65 | ↓ -32% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $73.37 | ↓ -31% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $76.22 | ↓ -28% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $76.22 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $81.97 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $104.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $106.84 | ↑ +1% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $106.84 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $106.85 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $106.85 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $106.85 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $106.85 | ↑ +1% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $106.85 | ↑ +1% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $117.53 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $135.34 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $170.20 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $181.98 | ↑ +71% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $186.67 | ↑ +76% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $187.80 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $197.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $197.15 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $206.25 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $212.31 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $212.31 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $227.48 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $232.21 | ↑ +119% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $256.75 | ↑ +142% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $303.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $303.30 | ↑ +186% |
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Assay of endocrine hormone at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $58.63 – $292.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $239.27 | $36.00 – $358.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $239.27 | $36.00 – $299.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $239.27 | $36.00 – $358.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $239.27 | $26.00 – $358.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $239.27 | $36.00 – $358.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $239.27 | $59.83 – $299.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $239.27 | $36.00 – $358.91 |