Elisa hiv-1/hiv-2 screen at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$140.70
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.
$402.00
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.
$14.59 with CHC vs $301.50 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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| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -90% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.36 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $15.67 | ↓ -89% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.29 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $18.29 | ↓ -87% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $18.29 | ↓ -87% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $18.29 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $18.66 | ↓ -87% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $18.66 | ↓ -87% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $18.84 | ↓ -87% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $19.57 | ↓ -86% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $19.57 | ↓ -86% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $21.04 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $26.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $27.43 | ↓ -81% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $27.43 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $27.44 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $27.44 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $27.44 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $27.44 | ↓ -80% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $27.44 | ↓ -80% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $30.18 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $34.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $43.78 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $47.92 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $48.31 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $59.63 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $66.06 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $80.11 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $93.83 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $237.18 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $241.20 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $261.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $261.30 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $273.36 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $281.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $281.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $301.50 | ↑ +114% |
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Elisa hiv-1/hiv-2 screen at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $15.05 – $75.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $45.34 | $11.58 – $76.99 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | not published | $16.46 – $70.42 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | not published | $15.05 – $75.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $15.36 – $75.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | not published | $39.95 – $79.74 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | not published | $15.05 – $75.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | not published | $15.05 – $75.26 |