Methotrexate sodium 2.5 mg tablet at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$9.93
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.
$28.35
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.
$0.26 with United vs $21.27 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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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $0.26 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $0.39 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.39 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.39 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $0.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $0.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $0.68 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $2.23 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $2.52 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $4.35 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $5.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $6.24 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $6.66 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7.38 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $7.38 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $9.08 | ↓ -9% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.36 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $13.61 | ↑ +37% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $13.61 | ↑ +37% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $17.01 | ↑ +71% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $18.43 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.43 | ↑ +86% |
| PHCS | Commercial|All Plans | $19.85 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $19.85 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $19.85 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $21.27 | ↑ +114% |
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Methotrexate sodium 2.5 mg tablet at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $12.47 | $0.20 – $6.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $185.60 | $0.20 – $6.92 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $21.89 | $0.69 – $8.19 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $106.88 | $0.15 – $6.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON KINGWOOD | HUMBLE | $179.74 | $0.15 – $6.92 |
| HCA HOUSTON NORTHWEST | SPRING | $179.32 | $0.20 – $6.92 |
| St. Luke's Health Memorial Lufkin | Lufkin | $18.04 | $0.25 – $35.06 |
| St. Luke's Health - Brazosport Hospital | Lake Jackson | $12.59 | $0.25 – $23.37 |