Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$5,244.26
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.
$14,983.58
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.
$114.90 with CHC vs $14,983.58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $114.90 | ↓ -98% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $114.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $120.95 | ↓ -98% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $123.37 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $165.70 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $214.75 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $236.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $290.22 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $377.36 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +3% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +3% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +3% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,414.46 | ↑ +3% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,522.75 | ↑ +5% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,522.75 | ↑ +5% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $5,576.89 | ↑ +6% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $5,793.47 | ↑ +10% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $5,793.47 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $6,480.63 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $6,710.44 | ↑ +28% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,974.68 | ↑ +52% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8,121.69 | ↑ +55% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8,121.69 | ↑ +55% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $8,121.69 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $8,840.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $8,990.15 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $9,739.33 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9,739.33 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $10,188.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $10,488.51 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $10,488.51 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11,237.69 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $11,766.25 | ↑ +124% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $13,788.57 | ↑ +163% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $14,983.58 | ↑ +186% |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $118.53 – $8,089.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,167.26 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $4,994.35 | $1,028.00 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,728.24 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,167.26 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $4,994.35 | $129.42 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $4,994.35 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,728.24 | $120.95 – $13,613.39 |