Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,953.70
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.
$5,582.00
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 $4,186.50 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 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $203.10 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $224.10 | ↓ -89% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $224.10 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $235.10 | ↓ -88% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $235.90 | ↓ -88% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $240.62 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $294.91 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $323.18 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $389.51 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $442.37 | ↓ -77% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -72% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -72% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -71% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -71% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -71% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -70% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $736.01 | ↓ -62% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $808.04 | ↓ -59% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $823.79 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $925.00 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,366.00 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,518.00 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,518.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,349.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,628.30 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,628.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,907.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,907.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,186.50 | ↑ +114% |
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Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $231.18 – $325.52 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $6,224.83 | $535.57 – $535.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,798.47 | $232.89 – $3,498.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,872.38 | $420.11 – $4,308.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,974.04 | $232.89 – $3,717.55 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,798.47 | $232.89 – $3,498.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,872.38 | $249.19 – $4,308.57 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,872.38 | $232.89 – $4,308.57 |