Insert sq defib electrode at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,863.35
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.
$8,181.00
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.
$1,233.00 with Aetna-Kelsey Care vs $19,384.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,233.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,488.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,309.00 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $3,646.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $4,908.60 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,317.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $5,317.65 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,563.08 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $5,726.70 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $5,726.70 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $5,731.39 | ↑ +100% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $5,771.38 | ↑ +102% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $5,771.38 | ↑ +102% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $6,075.14 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,135.75 | ↑ +114% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $6,196.64 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $6,217.56 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $7,336.18 | ↑ +156% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $8,289.39 | ↑ +189% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $8,289.39 | ↑ +189% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $8,289.39 | ↑ +189% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $8,289.39 | ↑ +189% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $8,322.94 | ↑ +191% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $8,455.18 | ↑ +195% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $8,455.18 | ↑ +195% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $8,538.07 | ↑ +198% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $8,869.65 | ↑ +210% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $8,869.65 | ↑ +210% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,158.00 | ↑ +220% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $11,080.68 | ↑ +287% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $11,817.00 | ↑ +313% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $12,434.08 | ↑ +334% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $12,434.08 | ↑ +334% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $12,434.09 | ↑ +334% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $13,143.98 | ↑ +359% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13,643.65 | ↑ +376% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $14,672.35 | ↑ +412% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $17,447.00 | ↑ +509% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $18,954.44 | ↑ +562% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $19,384.00 | ↑ +577% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $19,384.00 | ↑ +577% |
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Insert sq defib electrode at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $5,953.64 – $13,296.82 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $12,133.56 | $6,075.14 – $21,045.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $12,415.17 | $2,555.46 – $21,045.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $11,335.59 | $6,075.14 – $21,045.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $12,133.56 | $6,075.14 – $21,045.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $12,415.17 | $6,500.40 – $21,045.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $12,415.17 | $6,075.14 – $21,045.99 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $11,335.59 | $6,075.14 – $21,045.99 |