Gw stiffened micro access kit at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,167.60
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.
$3,336.00
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.
$0.01 with Cigna vs $1,071.53 with PHCS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $346.19 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $362.67 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $395.64 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $412.13 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $428.61 | ↓ -63% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $428.61 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $445.10 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $461.58 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $478.07 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $478.07 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $494.55 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $511.04 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $511.04 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $609.95 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $692.37 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $692.37 | ↓ -41% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,071.53 | ↓ -8% |
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Gw stiffened micro access kit at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $17,065.86 | not published |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $19,766.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $3,784.55 | $1.41 – $11.60 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $1,231.02 | $10.24 – $151.20 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $3,784.55 | $5.39 – $40.60 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $27,486.80 | $0.27 – $40,285.00 |