CT lower extremity w/contrast (both sides) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,439.15
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.
$6,969.00
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.
$162.84 with CHC vs $5,226.75 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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| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $162.84 | ↓ -93% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $162.84 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $171.41 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $174.84 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -93% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -93% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -93% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $178.31 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $181.88 | ↓ -93% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $181.88 | ↓ -93% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $183.66 | ↓ -92% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $190.79 | ↓ -92% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $190.79 | ↓ -92% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $234.83 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $266.04 | ↓ -89% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $267.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $267.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $267.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $298.72 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $309.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $507.00 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $534.80 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $559.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $564.88 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $590.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $667.00 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $705.19 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $792.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $800.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $800.00 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,315.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,405.00 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,942.00 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,156.00 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,156.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $4,111.71 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,181.40 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,529.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,529.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,738.92 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,878.30 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,878.30 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,226.75 | ↑ +114% |
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CT lower extremity w/contrast (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $167.98 – $391.77 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $4,003.20 | $849.15 – $849.15 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,399.92 | $167.39 – $2,999.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,877.52 | $236.02 – $2,816.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,252.48 | $167.39 – $2,815.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,399.92 | $167.39 – $2,999.89 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,877.52 | $167.39 – $2,816.28 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,877.52 | $171.41 – $2,816.28 |