Covid-19 lab test non-cdc at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$92.05
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$263.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$40.95 with TCHP vs $263.00 with BCBS-TX — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | $40.95 | ↓ -56% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $40.95 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $43.10 | ↓ -53% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $43.96 | ↓ -52% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -44% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -44% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $51.31 | ↓ -44% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $52.34 | ↓ -43% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $52.34 | ↓ -43% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $52.85 | ↓ -43% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $54.90 | ↓ -40% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $54.90 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $59.05 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $74.91 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $76.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $84.66 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $97.49 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +9% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $134.47 | ↑ +46% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $157.80 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $167.27 | ↑ +82% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $170.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $170.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $184.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $184.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $197.25 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $224.74 | ↑ +144% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $263.00 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Covid-19 lab test non-cdc at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $100.19 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $81.11 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $81.76 | $47.41 – $74.40 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $97.01 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $83.36 | $42.24 – $107.75 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $89.25 | $36.94 – $255.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $39.90 | $46.18 – $205.20 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $31.35 | $43.10 – $188.10 |