CT guidance for percutaneous drain w/catheter placement supervision & interpretation at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$937.13
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.
$2,677.50
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.
$89.94 with BCBS-TX vs $2,008.13 with MultiPlan — 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $89.94 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $93.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $140.00 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $163.30 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $191.37 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $209.00 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $214.97 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $230.00 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $230.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $590.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $667.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $800.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $800.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,579.73 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,606.50 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,740.38 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,740.38 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,820.70 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,874.25 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,874.25 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,008.13 | ↑ +114% |
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CT guidance for percutaneous drain w/catheter placement supervision & interpretation at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $112.27 – $1,105.10 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,085.05 | $127.58 – $1,537.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,007.29 | $207.33 – $1,510.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $979.93 | $195.99 – $1,224.91 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,085.05 | $146.08 – $1,537.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,007.29 | $260.90 – $1,510.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,007.29 | $520.43 – $1,510.93 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $979.93 | $214.33 – $1,469.89 |