ER Visit (level 2) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$508.20
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.
$1,452.00
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.
$48.79 with TCHP vs $1,405.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.79 | ↓ -90% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.79 | ↓ -90% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $51.36 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $52.39 | ↓ -90% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $158.62 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $161.79 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $161.79 | ↓ -68% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $163.38 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $169.72 | ↓ -67% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $169.72 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $186.82 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $216.25 | ↓ -57% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $219.66 | ↓ -57% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $237.93 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $271.28 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $358.29 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $406.91 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $459.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $459.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $507.00 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $559.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $665.00 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $734.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $800.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $871.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $943.80 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $943.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $987.36 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,016.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,016.40 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,085.00 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,089.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,103.52 | ↑ +117% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,204.00 | ↑ +137% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,204.00 | ↑ +137% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,405.00 | ↑ +176% |
Visitor-reported prices
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ER Visit (level 2) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $50.33 – $77.04 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $873.97 | $492.65 – $492.65 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $469.39 | $132.99 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $481.37 | $99.08 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $561.69 | $112.34 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $469.39 | $125.17 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $481.37 | $146.53 – $1,718.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $481.37 | $248.71 – $1,185.00 |