Crtj pericardial window/prtl resecj w/drg/bx at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,984.50
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.
$5,670.00
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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$377.06 with TCHP vs $9,158.00 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $377.06 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $404.84 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $543.76 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $622.22 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $796.44 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,202.95 | ↓ -39% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,238.33 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,426.95 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,592.87 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +22% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,748.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,402.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↑ +84% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,685.50 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $3,685.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,685.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,855.60 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,969.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,969.00 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $4,058.00 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,252.50 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,309.20 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,508.00 | ↑ +127% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $4,508.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +361% |
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Crtj pericardial window/prtl resecj w/drg/bx at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $7,607.62 – $7,607.62 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,161.89 | $895.87 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,649.05 | $545.26 – $5,388.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,522.88 | $504.58 – $5,388.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,161.89 | $843.17 – $7,038.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,649.05 | $850.35 – $5,388.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,649.05 | $1,368.68 – $3,973.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,522.88 | $840.96 – $5,388.00 |