Critical care 30-74 minutes at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,560.51
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.
$4,458.60
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.
$296.50 with CHC vs $5,857.00 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 |
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| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $296.50 | ↓ -81% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $296.50 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $312.11 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $318.35 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $427.58 | ↓ -73% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -46% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -46% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $843.98 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $860.86 | ↓ -45% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $860.86 | ↓ -45% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $869.30 | ↓ -44% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $903.06 | ↓ -42% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $903.06 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $973.32 | ↓ -38% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $973.76 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,126.66 | ↓ -28% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,245.65 | ↓ -20% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,265.97 | ↓ -19% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,265.97 | ↓ -19% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,265.97 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,413.32 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,866.65 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,116.00 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,119.98 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,318.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,332.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,675.16 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,898.09 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,898.09 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,031.85 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,121.02 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,121.02 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,343.95 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,388.54 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,425.00 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,802.00 | ↑ +144% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,802.00 | ↑ +144% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,857.00 | ↑ +275% |
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Critical care 30-74 minutes at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $7,379.79 | $2,566.64 – $2,566.64 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,540.23 | $719.73 – $3,175.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,062.22 | $630.31 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,595.72 | $719.14 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,540.23 | $677.39 – $6,643.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,062.22 | $788.30 – $4,593.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,062.22 | $1,582.15 – $4,593.33 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,595.72 | $788.30 – $5,393.58 |