CT thoracic spine without contrast at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$3,639.30
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.
$10,398.00
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.
$99.51 with TCHP vs $7,798.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $99.51 | ↓ -97% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $99.51 | ↓ -97% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $104.75 | ↓ -97% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -97% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -97% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $106.51 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $106.84 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -97% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $108.64 | ↓ -97% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $109.71 | ↓ -97% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -97% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $113.97 | ↓ -97% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $143.51 | ↓ -96% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $159.76 | ↓ -96% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $159.76 | ↓ -96% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $159.77 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $163.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.06 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $190.54 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $326.82 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $347.45 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $433.75 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $487.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $507.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $559.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $590.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $667.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $800.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $800.00 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,315.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,405.00 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,942.00 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,156.00 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,156.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $6,134.82 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $6,238.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $6,758.70 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,758.70 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7,070.64 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $7,278.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $7,278.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,798.50 | ↑ +114% |
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CT thoracic spine without contrast at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $3,708.09 | $522.29 – $522.29 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,890.44 | $99.77 – $2,363.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,768.19 | $141.23 – $2,652.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,980.37 | $99.77 – $2,475.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,890.44 | $99.77 – $2,363.05 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,768.19 | $99.77 – $2,652.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,768.19 | $104.75 – $2,652.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,980.37 | $99.77 – $2,970.56 |