Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$624.33
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.
$1,783.80
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.
$323.73 with TCHP vs $5,160.00 with Cigna — 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 | $323.73 | ↓ -48% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $323.73 | ↓ -48% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $340.77 | ↓ -45% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $347.59 | ↓ -44% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $466.85 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $609.04 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $779.57 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $891.73 | ↑ +43% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $891.73 | ↑ +43% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $891.73 | ↑ +43% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $891.73 | ↑ +43% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $909.56 | ↑ +46% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $909.56 | ↑ +46% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $918.48 | ↑ +47% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $954.15 | ↑ +53% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $954.15 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↑ +56% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,063.20 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,070.28 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,159.47 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.47 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $1,177.47 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,212.99 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,248.66 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,248.66 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,337.60 | ↑ +114% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,337.60 | ↑ +114% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,337.60 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,337.85 | ↑ +114% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $1,345.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $1,345.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,355.69 | ↑ +117% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,376.63 | ↑ +120% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,396.73 | ↑ +124% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,559.14 | ↑ +150% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +168% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $1,864.00 | ↑ +199% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $2,054.00 | ↑ +229% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +296% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +340% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +340% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $4,487.00 | ↑ +619% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $5,160.00 | ↑ +726% |
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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $333.95 – $1,412.97 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,251.00 | $340.77 – $2,813.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $2,284.54 | $71.00 – $3,426.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $2,284.54 | $71.00 – $2,855.67 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,251.00 | $340.77 – $2,813.74 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $2,284.54 | $85.00 – $3,426.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $2,284.54 | $340.77 – $3,426.80 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $2,284.54 | $71.00 – $3,426.80 |