Biospy of bladder at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,094.00
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.
$3,125.70
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.
$25.50 with UNITED vs $30,902.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $25.50 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $34.25 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $78.00 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $176.18 | ↓ -84% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $207.86 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $225.50 | ↓ -79% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↓ -78% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↓ -77% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $250.91 | ↓ -77% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↓ -76% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $340.61 | ↓ -69% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $365.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $404.03 | ↓ -63% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $445.00 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $451.01 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,875.42 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $2,031.71 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,031.71 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,031.71 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,125.48 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,187.99 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,187.99 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,344.28 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,375.54 | ↑ +117% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +151% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +151% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $11,164.00 | ↑ +920% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $12,302.00 | ↑ +1024% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $30,902.00 | ↑ +2725% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Biospy of bladder at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $408.73 – $408.73 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $6,620.59 | $238.44 – $2,835.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $7,195.12 | $38.84 – $612.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $6,949.31 | $71.00 – $612.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $6,620.59 | $238.44 – $2,835.59 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $7,195.12 | $78.62 – $612.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $7,195.12 | $157.25 – $612.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $6,949.31 | $71.00 – $612.25 |