Diphenhydramine 50 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2.21
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.
$6.30
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.
$0.75 with BCBS - TX vs $6.30 with Bright Health — 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 | $0.75 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $0.85 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1.04 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1.46 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.57 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1.57 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1.57 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1.84 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2.21 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2.24 | ↑ +1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2.33 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2.33 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3.78 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.10 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4.10 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4.41 | ↑ +100% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4.41 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4.41 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4.73 | ↑ +114% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.30 | ↑ +185% |
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Diphenhydramine 50 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $104.77 | $0.66 – $5.84 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $31.58 | $2.66 – $2.66 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $158.76 | $0.66 – $5.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $51.16 | $0.66 – $5.84 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $56.70 | $2.58 – $3.16 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $49.40 | $0.71 – $5.84 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $44.83 | $0.66 – $5.84 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $20.55 | $0.62 – $54.04 |