Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$158.03
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.
$451.50
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.
$270.90 with Cigna Lifesource vs $2,910.25 with Bright Health — 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 Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $270.90 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $293.48 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $293.48 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $316.05 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $316.05 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $316.05 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $338.63 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $451.50 | ↑ +186% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $900.66 | ↑ +470% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $900.66 | ↑ +470% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $900.66 | ↑ +470% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $900.66 | ↑ +470% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $918.67 | ↑ +481% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $918.67 | ↑ +481% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $927.68 | ↑ +487% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $963.71 | ↑ +510% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $963.71 | ↑ +510% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,255.74 | ↑ +695% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,255.74 | ↑ +695% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,350.99 | ↑ +755% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,631.36 | ↑ +932% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,456.18 | ↑ +1454% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,456.18 | ↑ +1454% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,456.18 | ↑ +1454% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,910.25 | ↑ +1742% |
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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $2,038.33 | $10,406.82 – $10,406.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $7,386.88 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $24,370.38 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $16,864.12 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $17,535.47 | $1,974.72 – $25,611.62 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,822.99 | $740.83 – $3,367.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $5,434.82 | $1,325.56 – $23,773.90 |