Ghs change cysto/gastrost at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$144.59
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.
$413.10
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.
$104.64 with CHC vs $5,160.00 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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| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $104.64 | ↓ -28% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $104.64 | ↓ -28% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $110.15 | ↓ -24% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $112.35 | ↓ -22% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $150.91 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $176.18 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $225.50 | ↑ +56% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +68% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +68% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $243.60 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $247.80 | ↑ +71% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↑ +72% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $248.47 | ↑ +72% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $250.91 | ↑ +74% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↑ +80% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $260.65 | ↑ +80% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $268.45 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $268.45 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $280.84 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $289.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $289.10 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $309.75 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $313.88 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $340.61 | ↑ +136% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $343.67 | ↑ +138% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↑ +153% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $365.40 | ↑ +153% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $365.40 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $404.03 | ↑ +179% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $445.00 | ↑ +208% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $451.01 | ↑ +212% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +458% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +572% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +1059% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +1189% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +1321% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +1611% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1801% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +1801% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +3469% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Ghs change cysto/gastrost at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $107.95 – $408.73 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $559.69 | $293.63 – $4,826.69 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $825.14 | $110.15 – $1,031.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $625.78 | $117.86 – $938.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $891.29 | $110.15 – $1,114.12 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $825.14 | $110.15 – $1,031.43 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $625.78 | $117.86 – $938.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $625.78 | $110.15 – $938.67 |