Drug test prsmv instrmnt at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center

4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$154.67

Cash price

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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.

$441.90

Gross charge

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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.

$13.68 with TCHP vs $83.70 with BCBS-TX — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
TCHP Medicaid|All Plans $13.68 ↓ -91%
CHC Medicaid|All Plans $13.68 ↓ -91%
Wellpoint Medicaid|All Plans $14.40 ↓ -91%
UNITED Medicaid|All Other Plans $14.69 ↓ -91%
KELSEY Medicare|All Plans $17.14 ↓ -89%
BCBS Medicare|All Plans $17.14 ↓ -89%
CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING Medicare|All Plans $17.14 ↓ -89%
HUMANA Medicare|All Plans $17.14 ↓ -89%
AETNA Medicare|All Plans $17.48 ↓ -89%
UNITED Medicare|All Plans $17.48 ↓ -89%
AMERIVANTAGE Medicare|All Plans $17.65 ↓ -89%
SCANHealth Medicare|All Plans $18.34 ↓ -88%
DEVOTED Medicare|All Plans $18.34 ↓ -88%
UNITED Medicaid|STAR $19.73 ↓ -87%
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $25.02 ↓ -84%
Ambetter Commercial|All Plans $25.71 ↓ -83%
Community Health Choice Commercial|Exchange $25.71 ↓ -83%
Wellpoint Commercial|Exchange $25.71 ↓ -83%
United Commercial|Exchange $26.94 ↓ -83%
United Commercial|PPO $26.94 ↓ -83%
United Commercial|HMO $26.94 ↓ -83%
United Commercial|Charter $26.94 ↓ -83%
Bright Health Commercial|All Plans $28.28 ↓ -82%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $32.57 ↓ -79%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $41.30 ↓ -73%
UNITED Medicaid|STARPLUS $44.93 ↓ -71%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $45.57 ↓ -71%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $50.22 ↓ -68%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $54.41 ↓ -65%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $54.41 ↓ -65%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $55.88 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $56.92 ↓ -63%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $58.59 ↓ -62%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $58.59 ↓ -62%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $62.32 ↓ -60%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $62.78 ↓ -59%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $75.07 ↓ -51%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $83.70 ↓ -46%

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