Dextrose 5 % and 0.9 % sodium chloride intravenous solution at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$9.93
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.
$28.35
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.
$1.69 with United vs $21.27 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1.69 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1.83 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $2.07 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2.54 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2.54 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2.54 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $3.36 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3.55 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3.55 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $3.56 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $4.47 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $5.46 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $17.01 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $18.43 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.43 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $19.85 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $19.85 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $21.27 | ↑ +114% |
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Dextrose 5 % and 0.9 % sodium chloride intravenous solution at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $1.25 – $10.52 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $137.39 | $6.47 – $6.47 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $49.79 | $4.74 – $6.71 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $9.19 | $0.59 – $2.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $9.19 | $0.59 – $2.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $9.19 | $0.59 – $2.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $9.19 | $0.59 – $2.64 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $23.97 | $1.31 – $34.24 |