Intro catheter aorta at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$1,063.13
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.
$3,037.50
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $2,749.00 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 |
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| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -91% |
| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $202.00 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $216.88 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $291.30 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $663.39 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $1,076.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,298.00 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $1,822.50 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $1,974.38 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,974.38 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $1,974.38 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,065.50 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $2,126.25 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,126.25 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,278.13 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $2,308.50 | ↑ +117% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +159% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +159% |
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Intro catheter aorta at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $2,597.66 | $736.00 – $3,680.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $988.48 | $71.00 – $1,482.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,634.05 | $71.00 – $2,042.56 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $2,597.66 | $692.71 – $3,680.02 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $988.48 | $85.00 – $1,482.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $988.48 | $510.71 – $1,482.71 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,634.05 | $71.00 – $2,451.07 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER - FORT WORTH | Fort Worth | $2,597.66 | $692.71 – $3,680.02 |