Levofloxacin 250 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center

4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$34.55

Cash price

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$98.70

Gross charge

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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.

$1.57 with BCBS - TX vs $39.38 with MultiPlan — same scan, same building. Share

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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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS - TX Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange $1.57 ↓ -95%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Exchange $1.77 ↓ -95%
United Commercial|Exchange $2.70 ↓ -92%
BCBS-TX Commercial|Blue Premier $3.05 ↓ -91%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $3.39 ↓ -90%
Cigna Commercial|Surefit $3.58 ↓ -90%
Cigna Commercial|HMO $3.58 ↓ -90%
BCBS-TX Commercial|HMO $3.83 ↓ -89%
United Commercial|PPO $4.06 ↓ -88%
United Commercial|HMO $4.06 ↓ -88%
United Commercial|Charter $4.06 ↓ -88%
BCBS-TX Commercial|PPO $4.68 ↓ -86%
Cigna Lifesource Commercial|Transplant $31.50 ↓ -9%
Coventry Commercial|PPO $34.13 ↓ -1%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $34.13 ↓ -1%
Healthsmart Commercial|PPO $36.75 ↑ +6%
Cigna Commercial|Transplant $36.75 ↑ +6%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $39.38 ↑ +14%

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Levofloxacin 250 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at other Texas hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST PASADENA not published $1.03 – $13.64
Adventhealth Rollins Brook Lampasas $190.78 $5.54 – $5.54
Covenant Children's Hospital Lubbock $82.03 $3.46 – $6.86
Baylor St Luke's Medical Center Houston $371.48 $1.30 – $59.43
St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin Lufkin $97.03 $1.30 – $35.06
St. Luke's Health - Springwoods Village Hospital Spring $371.48 $1.57 – $59.43
St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital Sugar Land $371.48 $1.57 – $59.43
St. Luke's Health - Lakeside Hospital The Woodlands $371.48 $1.57 – $59.43

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