Exchange nephrostomy cath at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,204.65
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.
$6,299.00
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.
$620.16 with TCHP vs $9,029.00 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 | $620.16 | ↓ -72% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $620.16 | ↓ -72% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $652.80 | ↓ -70% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $665.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -63% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $894.34 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $1,328.66 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $1,700.69 | ↓ -23% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $2,036.74 | ↓ -8% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -7% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -7% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $2,051.83 | ↓ -7% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,092.87 | ↓ -5% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,092.87 | ↓ -5% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $2,113.38 | ↓ -4% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↓ -0% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $2,195.46 | ↓ -0% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $2,568.75 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,994.29 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $3,047.07 | ↑ +38% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $3,077.74 | ↑ +40% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.74 | ↑ +40% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $3,077.75 | ↑ +40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,262.00 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $3,401.38 | ↑ +54% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,594.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,668.98 | ↑ +66% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,974.73 | ↑ +80% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,974.73 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,158.18 | ↑ +89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,280.48 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,280.48 | ↑ +94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,586.22 | ↑ +108% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,647.37 | ↑ +111% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,029.00 | ↑ +310% |
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Exchange nephrostomy cath at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $639.74 – $3,082.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,628.13 | $652.80 – $5,045.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,672.08 | $71.00 – $5,508.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,909.32 | $71.00 – $5,045.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,628.13 | $652.80 – $5,045.72 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $3,672.08 | $85.00 – $5,508.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $3,672.08 | $652.80 – $5,508.13 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $3,909.32 | $71.00 – $5,863.98 |