Doppler intravascular pressure flow initial vessel at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$899.96
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.
$2,571.30
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $2,749.00 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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| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -89% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $171.00 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $183.60 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $246.59 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $561.58 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,542.78 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,671.35 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,671.35 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,799.91 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,799.91 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,928.48 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +205% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +205% |
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Doppler intravascular pressure flow initial vessel at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | $11,410.47 | $1,943.32 – $1,943.32 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,563.60 | $1,009.69 – $5,048.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,026.62 | $622.98 – $4,539.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,725.18 | $745.04 – $4,656.47 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,563.60 | $950.29 – $5,048.44 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,026.62 | $971.54 – $4,539.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,026.62 | $1,563.75 – $4,539.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,725.18 | $1,241.73 – $5,587.77 |