Colonoscopy w/dilation at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$286.34
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.
$818.10
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.
$407.80 with TCHP vs $10,059.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $407.80 | ↑ +42% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $407.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $429.26 | ↑ +50% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $437.85 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $490.86 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $531.77 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $531.77 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $556.31 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $572.67 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $572.67 | ↑ +100% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $588.09 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $613.58 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $621.76 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $753.17 | ↑ +163% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +182% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $964.05 | ↑ +237% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +239% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,180.99 | ↑ +312% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,180.99 | ↑ +312% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,180.99 | ↑ +312% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,180.99 | ↑ +312% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,204.61 | ↑ +321% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,204.61 | ↑ +321% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,216.42 | ↑ +325% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,263.66 | ↑ +341% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,263.66 | ↑ +341% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,339.29 | ↑ +368% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,456.12 | ↑ +409% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,727.26 | ↑ +503% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,734.13 | ↑ +506% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,771.48 | ↑ +519% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,771.48 | ↑ +519% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,771.49 | ↑ +519% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,928.10 | ↑ +573% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,303.00 | ↑ +704% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +749% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +749% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,400.00 | ↑ +1087% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,635.00 | ↑ +1169% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +1219% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +1219% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $4,005.00 | ↑ +1299% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10,059.00 | ↑ +3413% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Colonoscopy w/dilation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $420.67 – $1,747.34 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $1,255.28 – $2,991.88 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | not published | $429.26 – $6,703.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $420.67 – $1,606.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $460.61 – $2,058.65 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $420.67 – $1,747.34 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $420.67 – $1,787.51 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | not published | $460.61 – $1,787.51 |