Diffusing capacity at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$548.68
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.
$1,567.65
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.
$68.40 with BCBS - TX vs $1,175.74 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 | $68.40 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $79.18 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $99.32 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $131.18 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $148.98 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $597.00 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $881.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $940.59 | ↑ +71% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $979.00 | ↑ +78% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $979.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,018.98 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,018.98 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,097.36 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,097.36 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,175.74 | ↑ +114% |
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Diffusing capacity at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $737.43 | $109.63 – $423.79 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $395.37 | $112.02 – $560.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $434.72 | $89.48 – $652.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $478.63 | $95.73 – $598.29 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $395.37 | $105.43 – $560.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $434.72 | $139.55 – $652.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $434.72 | $224.61 – $652.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $478.63 | $141.49 – $717.95 |