IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis initial up to 1 hour at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$520.80
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.
$1,488.00
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.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $1,116.00 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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| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $106.29 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $121.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $123.03 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $154.34 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $177.00 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $196.00 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $196.00 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $203.84 | ↓ -61% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $211.03 | ↓ -59% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $215.25 | ↓ -59% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $217.36 | ↓ -58% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -57% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $225.80 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $231.50 | ↓ -56% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $316.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $316.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $342.11 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $892.80 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $967.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $967.20 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $1,041.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $1,041.60 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,116.00 | ↑ +114% |
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IV infusion therapy/prophylaxis/diagnosis initial up to 1 hour at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $170.35 – $680.14 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,876.96 | $280.28 – $280.28 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $541.27 | $153.36 – $676.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $506.74 | $104.30 – $760.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $590.25 | $118.05 – $737.81 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $541.27 | $144.34 – $676.58 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $506.74 | $162.66 – $760.11 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $506.74 | $261.82 – $760.11 |