Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,655.64
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.
$4,730.40
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.
$499.42 with CHC vs $7,221.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $499.42 | ↓ -70% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $499.42 | ↓ -70% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $525.71 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $536.22 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $720.22 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,072.96 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,298.00 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,373.39 | ↓ -17% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,640.22 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↑ +4% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↑ +4% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↑ +4% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,727.26 | ↑ +4% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,761.81 | ↑ +6% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,761.81 | ↑ +6% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $1,779.08 | ↑ +7% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,782.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,782.00 | ↑ +8% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $1,848.17 | ↑ +12% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $1,848.17 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,074.38 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,303.00 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $2,460.65 | ↑ +49% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,501.99 | ↑ +51% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $2,590.89 | ↑ +56% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $2,590.89 | ↑ +56% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $2,590.89 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $2,609.00 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $2,746.77 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,838.24 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,875.00 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,074.76 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,074.76 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,216.68 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,311.28 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,311.28 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,400.00 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,547.80 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,595.11 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +128% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,778.00 | ↑ +128% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $5,185.00 | ↑ +213% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7,221.00 | ↑ +336% |
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Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $515.20 – $2,489.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $4,599.84 | $1,245.13 – $4,524.00 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,562.70 | $1,285.00 – $7,322.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $879.03 | $639.94 – $5,023.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $11,532.63 | $564.11 – $2,932.75 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,562.70 | $1,285.00 – $7,322.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $2,562.70 | $1,285.00 – $7,322.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $879.03 | $2,762.65 – $5,023.00 |