Homovanillic acid (hva) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$53.87
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.
$153.90
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.
$17.88 with TCHP vs $115.43 with MultiPlan — 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 | $17.88 | ↓ -67% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.88 | ↓ -67% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.82 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $19.20 | ↓ -64% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $22.41 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $22.41 | ↓ -58% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $22.41 | ↓ -58% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $22.41 | ↓ -58% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $22.86 | ↓ -58% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $22.86 | ↓ -58% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $23.08 | ↓ -57% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $23.98 | ↓ -55% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $23.98 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $25.78 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $32.72 | ↓ -39% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $33.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $33.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $33.62 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $35.84 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $35.84 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $35.84 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $35.84 | ↓ -33% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.98 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $42.58 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $53.71 | ↓ -0% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $58.72 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $59.26 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $73.06 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $81.01 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $92.34 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $98.16 | ↑ +82% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $100.04 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $100.04 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $104.66 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $107.73 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $107.73 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $114.96 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $115.43 | ↑ +114% |
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Homovanillic acid (hva) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $18.44 – $92.01 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $122.39 | $10.00 – $90.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $125.84 | $12.00 – $108.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $105.00 | $12.00 – $90.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $122.39 | $10.00 – $90.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $125.84 | $12.00 – $108.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $125.84 | $8.00 – $108.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $105.00 | $12.00 – $108.00 |