Calcium ionized 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

$88.20

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.

$252.00

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.

$10.92 with TCHP vs $177.53 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
TCHP Medicaid|All Plans $10.92 ↓ -88%
CHC Medicaid|All Plans $10.92 ↓ -88%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Plans $11.49 ↓ -87%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $11.72 ↓ -87%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $13.68 ↓ -84%
CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Plans $13.68 ↓ -84%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $13.68 ↓ -84%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $13.68 ↓ -84%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $13.95 ↓ -84%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $13.95 ↓ -84%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $14.09 ↓ -84%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $14.64 ↓ -83%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $14.64 ↓ -83%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $15.74 ↓ -82%
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $19.97 ↓ -77%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $20.52 ↓ -77%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $20.52 ↓ -77%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $20.52 ↓ -77%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $22.57 ↓ -74%
United Commercial|Charter $25.32 ↓ -71%
United Commercial|HMO $25.32 ↓ -71%
United Commercial|Exchange $25.32 ↓ -71%
United Commercial|PPO $25.32 ↓ -71%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $25.99 ↓ -71%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $33.04 ↓ -63%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $35.85 ↓ -59%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $36.45 ↓ -59%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $44.60 ↓ -49%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $49.85 ↓ -43%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $59.92 ↓ -32%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $70.18 ↓ -20%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $142.02 ↑ +61%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $153.86 ↑ +74%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $153.86 ↑ +74%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $160.96 ↑ +82%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $165.69 ↑ +88%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $165.69 ↑ +88%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $177.53 ↑ +101%

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