Implant cartilage 10mm synthetic at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$5,895.81
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.
$16,845.15
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.
$165.60 with BCBS-TX vs $591.42 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 | $165.60 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $173.49 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $189.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $197.14 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $205.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $205.03 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $212.91 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $220.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $228.68 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $228.68 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $236.57 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $236.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $236.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $236.57 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $244.46 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $244.46 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $291.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $331.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $331.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $473.13 | ↓ -92% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $512.56 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $512.56 | ↓ -91% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $512.56 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $551.99 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $551.99 | ↓ -91% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $591.42 | ↓ -90% |
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Implant cartilage 10mm synthetic at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $6,967.80 | not published |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $25,088.70 | $0.27 – $195.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $2,850.40 | $42.05 – $297.00 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $4,604.04 | $372.18 – $2,233.04 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $25,088.70 | $0.27 – $195.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $25,088.70 | $0.27 – $195.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $2,850.40 | $66.00 – $280.50 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $25,088.70 | $0.27 – $195.00 |