Blood typing abo at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$189.66
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.
$541.88
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.
$2.38 with TCHP vs $541.88 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 |
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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.38 | ↓ -99% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.38 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.51 | ↓ -99% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2.56 | ↓ -99% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3.44 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7.42 | ↓ -96% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $7.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8.19 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -32% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -32% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $129.11 | ↓ -32% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $131.69 | ↓ -31% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $132.98 | ↓ -30% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -27% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $138.15 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $159.18 | ↓ -16% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $188.56 | ↓ -1% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↑ +2% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $193.67 | ↑ +2% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $193.67 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $207.16 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $325.13 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $352.23 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $352.23 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $355.44 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $368.48 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $379.32 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $379.32 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $406.41 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $477.55 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $541.88 | ↑ +186% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $413.79 | $2.46 – $12.56 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $162.75 | $2.69 – $419.77 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $288.58 | $2.46 – $12.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $425.96 | $2.46 – $12.56 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $359.02 | $2.46 – $12.56 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $180.25 | $2.51 – $515.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $79.45 | $2.69 – $408.60 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $65.25 | $2.51 – $125.00 |