Brace wrist classic lft sm at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$27.57
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.
$78.75
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.
$16.54 with BCBS-TX vs $59.07 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 | $16.54 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $17.33 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $18.90 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $20.48 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $21.27 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $22.05 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $23.63 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $23.63 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $23.63 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $23.63 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $24.42 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $24.42 | ↓ -11% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $33.08 | ↑ +20% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $33.08 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $47.25 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $51.19 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $51.19 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $51.19 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $55.13 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $55.13 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $59.07 | ↑ +114% |
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Brace wrist classic lft sm at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $66.02 – $144.85 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $165.55 | $11.34 – $54.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $47.78 | $5.10 – $54.60 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $79.23 | $13.55 – $81.27 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $165.55 | $11.34 – $54.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $165.55 | $11.34 – $54.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $47.78 | $19.60 – $191.10 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $165.55 | $11.34 – $54.00 |