ER Visit (level 3) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$891.80
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.
$2,548.00
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 $3,983.00 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.79 | ↓ -95% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $51.36 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $52.39 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $52.39 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $52.39 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $277.34 | ↓ -69% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $277.34 | ↓ -69% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $277.34 | ↓ -69% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $277.34 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $282.89 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $282.89 | ↓ -68% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $285.66 | ↓ -68% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $296.75 | ↓ -67% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $296.75 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $326.08 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $377.44 | ↓ -58% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $387.01 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $416.01 | ↓ -53% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $416.01 | ↓ -53% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $416.01 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $473.48 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $625.35 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $710.22 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,145.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,260.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,260.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,439.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,528.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $1,586.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,656.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,656.20 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $1,689.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,732.64 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,783.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,783.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,866.00 | ↑ +109% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,880.00 | ↑ +111% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,880.00 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,911.00 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,936.48 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,251.00 | ↑ +152% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $3,983.00 | ↑ +347% |
Visitor-reported prices
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ER Visit (level 3) 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 | $1,470.35 | $859.86 – $859.86 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $770.04 | $218.18 – $6,299.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $886.75 | $182.52 – $2,805.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,006.17 | $201.23 – $2,805.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $770.04 | $205.34 – $2,691.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $886.75 | $260.51 – $2,805.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $886.75 | $458.16 – $2,410.00 |