Cyto/molecular report at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$93.24
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.
$266.40
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.
$49.46 with BCBS - TX vs $199.80 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|MyBlue Health Exchange | $49.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $50.62 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $50.76 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $50.76 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $50.76 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $50.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $55.86 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $64.37 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $76.37 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $110.45 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $148.39 | ↑ +59% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $157.18 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $159.84 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $173.16 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $173.16 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $173.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $181.16 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $186.48 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $186.48 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $199.80 | ↑ +114% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Cyto/molecular report at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $33.54 – $354.90 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,178.85 | $17.65 – $88.26 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,178.85 | $12.82 – $93.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,178.85 | $12.46 – $175.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,178.85 | $16.61 – $123.32 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,178.85 | $20.00 – $213.78 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,178.85 | $26.00 – $93.45 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,178.85 | $20.77 – $175.16 |