Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$493.50
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.
$1,410.00
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 $1,214.28 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.
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|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -80% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -28% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -28% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $357.71 | ↓ -28% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -26% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $364.86 | ↓ -26% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $368.44 | ↓ -25% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -22% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $382.75 | ↓ -22% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↑ +9% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $536.57 | ↑ +9% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $536.57 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $557.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $615.81 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $645.33 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $717.00 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $809.52 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $846.00 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $916.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $916.50 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $987.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $987.00 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,057.50 | ↑ +114% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,059.00 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,069.18 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,176.00 | ↑ +138% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,176.00 | ↑ +138% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,214.28 | ↑ +146% |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $893.53 – $893.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $6,784.09 | $893.53 – $893.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $4,440.70 | $893.53 – $893.53 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $537.18 | $1,302.11 – $1,302.11 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $462.00 | $100.00 – $1,320.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $535.80 | $100.00 – $3,214.80 |
| HCA HOUSTON PEARLAND | Pearland | $6,108.60 | $893.53 – $893.53 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $462.00 | $100.00 – $1,320.00 |