Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$520.80
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.
$1,488.00
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.
$56.30 with BCBS - TX vs $1,116.00 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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| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $56.30 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $65.17 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $81.75 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $107.97 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $122.62 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -59% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $217.36 | ↓ -58% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -57% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $300.87 | ↓ -42% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $316.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $342.11 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $452.98 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $452.98 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $452.98 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $892.80 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $967.20 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $967.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,041.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,041.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,116.00 | ↑ +114% |
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Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $90.23 – $436.84 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,833.06 | $148.46 – $148.46 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $488.60 | $118.38 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $558.06 | $114.87 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $527.15 | $105.43 – $658.94 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $488.60 | $90.23 – $610.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $558.06 | $142.29 – $837.09 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $558.06 | $288.33 – $837.09 |