Icd crtp serena MRI at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$15,750.00
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.
$45,000.00
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.
$4,820.80 with BCBS-TX vs $17,217.12 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|Exchange | $4,820.80 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $5,050.36 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $5,509.48 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $5,739.04 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $5,968.60 | ↓ -62% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,968.60 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $6,198.17 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $6,427.73 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,657.29 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,657.29 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6,886.85 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $6,886.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $6,886.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $6,886.85 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7,116.41 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,116.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $8,493.78 | ↓ -46% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $9,641.59 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $9,641.59 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $13,773.69 | ↓ -13% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $14,921.50 | ↓ -5% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,921.50 | ↓ -5% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $14,921.50 | ↓ -5% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $16,069.31 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $16,069.31 | ↑ +2% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $17,217.12 | ↑ +9% |
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Icd crtp serena MRI at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $11,566.80 | not published |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $30,484.13 | $7,827.75 – $37,275.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $15,680.18 | $3,359.03 – $23,729.40 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $16,854.24 | $16,854.24 – $101,125.40 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $30,484.13 | $7,827.75 – $37,275.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $30,484.13 | $7,827.75 – $37,275.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $15,680.18 | $5,273.20 – $22,411.10 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $30,484.13 | $7,827.75 – $37,275.00 |