Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$4,891.25
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.
$13,975.00
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.
$311.70 with TCHP vs $10,481.25 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $311.70 | ↓ -94% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $311.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $328.11 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $334.67 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -93% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -93% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -93% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -92% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -92% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $449.51 | ↓ -91% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $536.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $557.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $615.81 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $649.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,015.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,023.00 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,023.70 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,050.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,050.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,119.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,145.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,183.74 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,477.76 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,535.00 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,661.05 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,266.00 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,518.00 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,518.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,812.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $8,245.25 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $8,385.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $9,083.75 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,083.75 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9,503.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $9,782.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $9,782.50 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10,481.25 | ↑ +114% |
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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $14,937.12 | $321.55 – $820.98 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $5,941.03 | $1,779.42 – $1,779.42 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,149.11 | $328.11 – $3,936.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,480.37 | $494.01 – $5,220.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,969.34 | $328.11 – $4,961.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,149.11 | $328.11 – $3,936.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,480.37 | $332.94 – $5,220.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,480.37 | $328.11 – $5,220.56 |