Egd endoscopic stent place at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,249.73
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.
$6,427.80
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.
$1,233.00 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $20,636.00 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 |
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| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,233.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,488.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +8% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,584.08 | ↑ +15% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,584.08 | ↑ +15% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,720.08 | ↑ +21% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $2,774.48 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $3,585.62 | ↑ +59% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $3,677.00 | ↑ +63% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $3,726.51 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,856.68 | ↑ +71% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,178.07 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $4,178.07 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,178.07 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,370.91 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,499.46 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,499.46 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $4,589.60 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,820.85 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,885.13 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $5,428.00 | ↑ +141% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $5,962.45 | ↑ +165% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $5,962.45 | ↑ +165% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $5,962.45 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $5,962.45 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,032.00 | ↑ +168% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $6,032.00 | ↑ +168% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $6,081.70 | ↑ +170% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $6,081.70 | ↑ +170% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $6,141.32 | ↑ +173% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $6,379.82 | ↑ +184% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $6,379.82 | ↑ +184% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $6,932.20 | ↑ +208% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $7,455.00 | ↑ +231% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $8,215.00 | ↑ +265% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $8,223.03 | ↑ +266% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,417.77 | ↑ +274% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $8,486.65 | ↑ +277% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $8,943.67 | ↑ +298% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $8,943.67 | ↑ +298% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $8,943.68 | ↑ +298% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $9,179.19 | ↑ +308% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20,636.00 | ↑ +817% |
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Egd endoscopic stent place at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $2,665.68 – $8,318.64 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $5,976.04 – $8,715.36 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | not published | $2,720.08 – $14,118.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | not published | $2,720.08 – $14,118.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | not published | $2,910.49 – $14,118.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | not published | $2,720.08 – $14,118.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | not published | $2,720.08 – $14,118.49 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | not published | $2,720.08 – $14,118.49 |