Echo transesophageal intraop at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,608.71
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.
$4,596.30
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 $3,447.23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -94% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -85% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $236.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $249.26 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $254.25 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $341.49 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -66% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -66% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $549.19 | ↓ -66% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $560.17 | ↓ -65% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $565.67 | ↓ -65% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -63% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $587.63 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $726.12 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $777.69 | ↓ -52% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $808.04 | ↓ -50% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $823.79 | ↓ -49% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -49% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $823.79 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $840.50 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $925.00 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,054.36 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,366.00 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,392.55 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,518.00 | ↓ -6% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,518.00 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,581.54 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $2,757.78 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,987.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $2,987.60 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $3,217.41 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $3,217.41 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,447.23 | ↑ +114% |
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Echo transesophageal intraop at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $244.27 – $1,163.78 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - GRAPEVINE | Grapevine | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - IRVING | Irving | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - LAKE POINTE | Rowlett | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - MCKINNEY | McKinney | $2,734.24 | $257.31 – $3,417.80 |