Lead ingevity 45cm pfret MRI at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,579.12
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.
$7,368.90
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.
$33.52 with BCBS-TX vs $119.70 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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| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $33.52 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $35.12 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $38.31 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $39.90 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $41.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $41.50 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $43.10 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $44.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $46.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $46.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $47.88 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $47.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $47.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $47.88 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $49.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $49.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $59.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $67.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $67.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $95.76 | ↓ -96% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $103.74 | ↓ -96% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $103.74 | ↓ -96% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $103.74 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $111.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $111.72 | ↓ -96% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $119.70 | ↓ -95% |
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Lead ingevity 45cm pfret MRI at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $4,851.42 | not published |
| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $2,887.50 | $0.21 – $1.00 |
| St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital | Madisonville | $13,636.18 | $94.03 – $664.20 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $2,027.19 | $334.85 – $2,009.07 |
| St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital | Spring | $2,887.50 | $0.21 – $1.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital | Sugar Land | $2,887.50 | $0.21 – $1.00 |
| St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital | College Station | $13,636.18 | $147.60 – $627.30 |
| St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital | The Woodlands | $2,887.50 | $0.21 – $1.00 |