Butorphanol tartrate 1 mg at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center

4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$6.99

Cash price

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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.

$19.95

Gross charge

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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.

$0.99 with BCBS - TX vs $14.97 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $0.99 ↓ -86%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $1.12 ↓ -84%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $1.93 ↓ -72%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $2.42 ↓ -65%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $2.96 ↓ -58%
United Commercial|Exchange $8.11 ↑ +16%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $11.97 ↑ +71%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $11.98 ↑ +71%
United Commercial|PPO $12.21 ↑ +75%
United Commercial|HMO $12.21 ↑ +75%
United Commercial|Charter $12.21 ↑ +75%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $12.63 ↑ +81%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $12.63 ↑ +81%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $12.97 ↑ +86%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $12.97 ↑ +86%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $13.97 ↑ +100%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $13.97 ↑ +100%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $14.97 ↑ +114%

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Butorphanol tartrate 1 mg at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST PASADENA not published $1.78 – $26.20
Adventhealth Rollins Brook Lampasas $53.69 $3.50 – $3.50
Baylor St Luke's Medical Center Houston $23.21 $0.82 – $50.53
St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin Lufkin $138.53 $1.95 – $93.71
St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital Spring $23.21 $0.99 – $50.53
St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital Sugar Land $23.21 $0.99 – $50.53
St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital The Woodlands $23.21 $0.99 – $50.53
St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital Lake Jackson $5.88 $2.04 – $10.92

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