Cath left heart/lv gram at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$3,621.24
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.
$10,346.40
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.
$688.04 with TCHP vs $28,954.00 with Cigna — 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 | $688.04 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $738.74 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $992.22 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,259.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $2,403.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,900.00 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -11% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -11% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -11% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,221.62 | ↓ -11% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,286.05 | ↓ -9% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,286.05 | ↓ -9% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $3,318.27 | ↓ -8% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $3,447.13 | ↓ -5% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $3,447.13 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $4,078.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $4,832.43 | ↑ +33% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $4,832.43 | ↑ +33% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $4,832.43 | ↑ +33% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,849.27 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $5,614.40 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $5,642.90 | ↑ +56% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $6,021.00 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $6,207.84 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $6,690.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,690.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,725.16 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,725.16 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $7,035.56 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,242.48 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $7,242.48 | ↑ +100% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $7,650.00 | ↑ +111% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $7,650.00 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,759.80 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,863.27 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $9,062.84 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $10,461.00 | ↑ +189% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $11,527.00 | ↑ +218% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $12,596.78 | ↑ +248% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $13,993.25 | ↑ +286% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $28,954.00 | ↑ +700% |
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Cath left heart/lv gram at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $6,298.39 – $6,298.39 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $11,201.25 | $3,093.86 – $14,001.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $12,231.53 | $2,517.66 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $9,848.25 | $1,969.65 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $11,201.25 | $2,987.00 – $17,181.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $12,231.53 | $3,093.86 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $12,231.53 | $6,319.63 – $18,347.30 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $9,848.25 | $3,093.86 – $14,772.38 |