Contrast x-ray of ankle at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$372.65
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.
$1,064.70
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.
$121.89 with TCHP vs $1,064.70 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 | $121.89 | ↓ -67% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $121.89 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $128.31 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $130.88 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -62% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $175.78 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $337.17 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -4% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -4% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -4% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -4% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -2% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -2% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $371.35 | ↓ -0% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↑ +3% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↑ +3% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $400.33 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $455.63 | ↑ +22% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↑ +44% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↑ +44% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $536.57 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $538.41 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $557.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $615.81 | ↑ +65% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $628.18 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $638.82 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $692.06 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $692.06 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $724.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $745.29 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $745.29 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $798.53 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $977.54 | ↑ +162% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,064.70 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,064.70 | ↑ +186% |
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Contrast x-ray of ankle at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $125.74 – $672.06 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $495.58 | $128.31 – $952.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $923.65 | $190.12 – $1,385.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $969.83 | $128.31 – $1,212.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $495.58 | $128.31 – $952.69 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $923.65 | $137.29 – $1,385.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $923.65 | $128.31 – $1,385.48 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $969.83 | $128.31 – $1,454.75 |