Echo tee guidance at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,999.50
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.
$8,570.00
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 $6,427.50 with MultiPlan — 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|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -97% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $208.87 | ↓ -93% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $208.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $219.86 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $224.26 | ↓ -93% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $301.21 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $345.70 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $400.16 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $501.97 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $662.98 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $685.96 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $752.96 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $5,142.00 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,570.50 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,570.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,999.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,999.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,427.50 | ↑ +114% |
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Echo tee guidance at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $215.46 – $554.07 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,967.40 | $238.59 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,773.93 | $219.86 – $4,717.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $3,210.68 | $219.86 – $4,548.46 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,967.40 | $235.25 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,967.40 | $219.86 – $5,951.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,773.93 | $219.86 – $5,660.90 |