Bone tendon board add on at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$10,838.31
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.
$30,966.60
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.
$320.87 with Cigna vs $23,224.95 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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| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $320.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $338.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $338.27 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $6,502.99 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $6,812.66 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $7,431.99 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $7,741.65 | ↓ -29% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,051.32 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $8,051.32 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,360.99 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $8,670.65 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8,980.32 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $8,980.32 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9,289.98 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9,599.65 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9,599.65 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $11,457.65 | ↑ +6% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $13,005.98 | ↑ +20% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $13,005.98 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $18,579.96 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $20,128.29 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $20,128.29 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20,128.29 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $21,676.62 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $21,676.62 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $23,224.95 | ↑ +114% |
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Bone tendon board add on at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $271.16 – $271.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $5,096.00 | $271.16 – $271.16 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $12,740.24 | $320.87 – $23,950.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $12,740.24 | $320.87 – $23,950.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $12,740.24 | $320.87 – $23,950.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $12,740.24 | $320.87 – $23,950.19 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $12,740.24 | $320.87 – $23,950.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $271.16 – $271.16 |