#flow interp 9 - 15 markers at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$72.14
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.
$206.10
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.
$94.98 with Cigna vs $206.10 with BCBS-TX — 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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| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $94.98 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $96.29 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $99.90 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $99.90 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $99.90 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $99.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $104.81 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $121.60 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $123.66 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $125.31 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $133.97 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $133.97 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $140.15 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $143.29 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $144.27 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $144.27 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $154.58 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $206.10 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $206.10 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $206.10 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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#flow interp 9 - 15 markers at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $62.81 – $701.57 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $564.24 | $15.26 – $160.92 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $564.24 | $11.09 – $80.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $564.24 | $10.77 – $340.96 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $564.24 | $14.36 – $240.06 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $564.24 | $17.29 – $416.14 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $564.24 | $26.00 – $80.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $564.24 | $17.96 – $340.96 |