Myelography via inj w/s&i cervical at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$2,035.25
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.
$5,815.00
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.
$386.70 with TCHP vs $10,059.00 with Cigna — 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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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $386.70 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $415.19 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $510.62 | ↓ -75% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $557.65 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $653.59 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -61% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -61% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $791.34 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna-Kelsey Care | Commercial|HMO | $807.00 | ↓ -60% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -60% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $807.17 | ↓ -60% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $815.08 | ↓ -60% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -58% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $846.73 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $972.00 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $987.19 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $1,171.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $1,187.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $1,187.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.41 | ↓ -41% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $1,269.98 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $1,307.17 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $1,676.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $2,430.00 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $2,474.00 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,749.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $3,488.94 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $3,635.00 | ↑ +79% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,779.69 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $3,779.69 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,954.14 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $4,005.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $4,070.43 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,070.43 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,361.18 | ↑ +114% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $4,419.33 | ↑ +117% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10,059.00 | ↑ +394% |
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Myelography via inj w/s&i cervical at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $1,111.63 – $1,184.63 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,629.67 | $461.74 – $2,037.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,511.36 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,185.83 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,629.67 | $434.58 – $2,037.08 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $1,511.36 | $85.00 – $5,132.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $1,511.36 | $780.87 – $2,267.04 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $1,185.83 | $71.00 – $5,132.00 |