#cbg+cort-cbg at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$24.26
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.
$69.30
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.
$14.36 with TCHP vs $69.30 with BCBS-TX — 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 | $14.36 | ↓ -41% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.36 | ↓ -41% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.12 | ↓ -38% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.42 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -26% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -26% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -26% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.00 | ↓ -26% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $18.36 | ↓ -24% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.36 | ↓ -24% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $18.54 | ↓ -24% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $19.26 | ↓ -21% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $19.26 | ↓ -21% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $20.71 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $26.28 | ↑ +8% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $27.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $27.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $29.70 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $33.33 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $33.33 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $33.33 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $33.33 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $34.20 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $41.58 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $42.97 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $45.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $45.05 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $47.13 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $47.13 | ↑ +94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $47.17 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $47.41 | ↑ +95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $48.51 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $48.51 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $51.98 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $52.67 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $58.68 | ↑ +142% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $64.81 | ↑ +167% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $69.30 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $69.30 | ↑ +186% |
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#cbg+cort-cbg at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $14.82 – $73.87 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $157.50 | $10.00 – $196.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $157.50 | $12.00 – $135.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $157.50 | $12.00 – $110.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $157.50 | $10.00 – $196.88 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $157.50 | $12.00 – $135.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $157.50 | $8.00 – $135.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $157.50 | $12.00 – $132.30 |