Diathermy eg microwave at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$38.75
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.
$110.70
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.
$10.53 with BCBS - TX vs $520.00 with United — 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 | $10.53 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $12.18 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $15.29 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $20.19 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $22.93 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $66.42 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $71.96 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $71.96 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $77.49 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $77.49 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $83.03 | ↑ +114% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↑ +158% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +158% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $317.00 | ↑ +718% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $468.00 | ↑ +1108% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $520.00 | ↑ +1242% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $520.00 | ↑ +1242% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Diathermy eg microwave at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $7.29 – $21.05 |
| Ascension Seton Cedar Park Hospital | Cedar Park | $16.51 | $6.46 – $33.15 |
| Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (Ascension Seton) | Luling | $32.13 | $6.46 – $33.15 |
| Ascension Seton Highland Lakes (Ascension Seton) | Burnet | $32.13 | $6.46 – $33.15 |
| Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $32.13 | $6.46 – $33.15 |
| Ascension Seton Northwest (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $32.13 | $6.46 – $33.15 |
| Ascension Seton Smithville (Ascension Seton) | Smithville | $17.37 | $6.46 – $33.15 |
| Dell Children's Medical Center (Ascension Seton) | Austin | $33.78 | $6.46 – $33.15 |