Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$125.69
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.
$359.10
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.
$33.02 with TCHP vs $269.33 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 | $33.02 | ↓ -74% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.02 | ↓ -74% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.76 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $35.46 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -67% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -67% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -67% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $41.38 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $42.21 | ↓ -66% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $42.21 | ↓ -66% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $42.62 | ↓ -66% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↓ -65% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $44.28 | ↓ -65% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $47.62 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $60.41 | ↓ -52% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $62.07 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $62.07 | ↓ -51% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $62.07 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $62.22 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $62.22 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $62.22 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $62.22 | ↓ -50% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.28 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $78.62 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -20% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $108.45 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $134.90 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $181.24 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $211.87 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $212.28 | ↑ +69% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $215.46 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $233.42 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $233.42 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $244.19 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $251.37 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $251.37 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $269.33 | ↑ +114% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay direct optical observation sars-cov-2 at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $34.06 – $166.17 |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $32.38 | $37.38 – $166.50 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $30.15 | $34.76 – $180.90 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $32.38 | $34.76 – $157.25 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $73.85 | $29.79 – $211.00 |