Drainage of mouth lesion at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$180.81
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.
$516.60
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.
$83.20 with TCHP vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $83.20 | ↓ -54% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $83.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $87.58 | ↓ -52% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $89.33 | ↓ -51% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $119.98 | ↓ -34% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $152.73 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $195.49 | ↑ +8% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +29% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +29% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $232.60 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +31% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +31% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $239.58 | ↑ +33% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +38% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $248.88 | ↑ +38% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $273.25 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $295.28 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $309.96 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $335.79 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $335.79 | ↑ +86% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $348.90 | ↑ +93% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +93% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $348.90 | ↑ +93% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $350.26 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $351.29 | ↑ +94% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $353.79 | ↑ +96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $361.62 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $361.62 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $387.45 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $390.99 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $392.62 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +346% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +438% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,345.00 | ↑ +644% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,345.00 | ↑ +644% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +827% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +931% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +1036% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1268% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1420% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1420% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,487.00 | ↑ +2382% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +2754% |
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Drainage of mouth lesion at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $85.83 – $354.33 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,576.20 | $87.58 – $1,970.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $455.56 | $71.00 – $683.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $455.56 | $71.00 – $605.10 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,576.20 | $87.58 – $1,970.25 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $455.56 | $85.00 – $683.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $455.56 | $87.58 – $683.34 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $455.56 | $71.00 – $683.34 |